Saturday, February 06, 2016

Tennis News

At Fed Cup Asia / Oceania Group I, Hua Hin, Thailand

For 5th place

India bt Kazakhstan 2-0

[S1] Prerna Bhambri (IND,399) bt Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ,UNR) 62 46 62
[S2] Ankita Raina (IND,307) bt Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ,83) 76(2) retd.

Ankita and Prerna continues with their terrific performances as they win their respective singles matches for helping India to finish one of their best-ever #5 placing in recent Fed Cup Asia / Oceania Group I outing ... Heartily congratulation to our girls and Zeeshan Ali.

Prerna faced former top-50 player Galina Voskoboeva, who is making comeback on the tour ... After winning the first set Prerna lost the second but he recovered well enough for winning the final set comfortably for giving winning start for India ... Next Ankita faced Shvedovav ... In closely fought first set Ankita managed to win it in tie-break ... After that Shvedova retired from the match for giving winning lead to Indian team.


At € 520K Open Sud De France, Montpellier, France

[SF] (PR) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Jonathan Marray (GBR) l (WC) Alexander Zverev (GER)/ Mischa Zverev (GER) 62 26 3-10

Mahesh and Jonathan run ended in the semis against Zverev brothers ... After winning the first set comfortably Mahesh-Jonathan failed to keep momentum and Zverev brothers made strong comeback for winning next two ... This performance will help Mahesh to improve hi ranking and he will be in top-300 in next week's rsnking.

At $75K Launceston Challenger, Australia

[SF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND,175) l (WC) Blake Mott (AUS,721) 16 46

Turn to be bad day at office but also Saki misses big opportunity of lifting challenger title in Australia ... In this match Saki struggled with his game ... His serving was poor, his shot-making was out of place and was failing to finish the point ... After losing the first set in 25 minutes Saki recovered and was leading 4-2 in the second ... But again he started making multiple UFEs and lost the match losing next four games.

At $693K Memphis Open 2016, USA

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,186) l (8) Adrian Menendez Maceiras (ESP,160) 36 46

Doubles
[R1] (PR) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA)

Buji fails to challenge Adrian and lose his match in straight sets.

This week Lee is playing his old partner Lukas Dlouhy and hoping for some good results from them.


At € 1.7M ABM Amro World Tennis Championship, Rotterdam, Netherlands

[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)

Rohan and Florin r playing at Rotterdam.

At $50K+H Bergamo Challenger, Italy

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,100) vs (ALT) Peter Gojowczyk (GER,199)

Yuki is top-seed at Bergamo and he is facing German Peter Gojowczyk in the first round.

At $75K+H Santo Domingo Challenger, Dominican Republic (Green clay)

[R1] (2) Ruan Roelofse (RSA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs James Cerretani (USA)/ Victor Hanescu (ROU)

This week Purav is playing with Roelofse in Dominican Republic challenger.

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