Thursday, March 10, 2016

Tennis News

At $6.8M BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, USA

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Samantha Stosur (AUS)

Sania-Martina r must be eager to start another winning streak with this tournament.

At $7M BNP Paribas Open, Indian Wells, USA

[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/ Marc López (ESP)
[R1] (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Stan Wawrinka (SUI) vs Steve Johnson (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA)

Rohan-Florin r 5th seed and facing Spanish pair in the first round ... Mahesh is partnering Stan and they r facing American pair in the first round ... lee is missing this Master as he is recovering from illness.

At $50K+H Zhuhai Challenger, China

[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,111) bt Ti Chen (TPE,233) 63 61
[R2] (5) Saketh Myneni (IND,156) bt Luke Saville (AUS,186) 76(4) 76(4)

[QF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,111) vs (5) Saketh Myneni (IND,156)

Doubles
[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs (3) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE) 63 36 11-13
[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) l (4) Yan Bai (CHN)/ Ricaardo Ghedin (ITA) 36 60 8-10

Yuki and Saki r in the quarters with contrasting win ... Yuki played excellent tennis to beat veteran Ti Chen losing only 4 games ... Yuki broke Ti Chen in 5th and 9th games for winning the first set ... In the second set he broke Ti Chen 2nd and 6th games for winning this match comfortably ... Other hand Saki failed to create break points on Luke's serve but he needed to save multiple break points on his serve ... Saki controlled both tie-break for winning on similar score ... In the quarters Indian #1 and #2 r facing each other.

Our both pairs lose their matches in closely fought match tie-breaks.


At $10K Japan F1 Futures, Nishi-Tama

[R1] (7) Karuunuday Singh (IND,532) bt (WC) Taiki Hashimoto (JPN,UNR) 62 64

[R2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,626) l Issei Okamura (JPN,821) 26 46
[R2] (7) Karuunuday Singh (IND,532) bt (WC) Shoma Kato (JPN,UNR) 60 61

[QF] (7) Karuunuday Singh (IND,532) vs Issei Okamura (JPN,821)

Doubles
[QF] Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN)/ Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt Gengo KIKUCHI (JPN) / Shunrou TAKESHIMA (JPN) 26 75 10-5

[SF] Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN)/ Karunuday SINGH (IND) vs (1) Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE)/ Ben MCLACHLAN (NZL)

KU scores back to back two wins over local wild-card players but Sid lose his match against in-form Okamura ... In the doubles KU is in the semis with his partner after comeback win over Japanese pair.

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