Saturday, April 16, 2016

Tennis News

At Junior Fed Cup Asia Oceania Final-Qualifying - u16, New Delhi, India

For Third Place
(4) India bt (6) New Zealand 2-1
[WS2] MAHAK JAIN (IND) bt NINA PARIPOVICH (NZL) 61 61
[WS1] SATHWIKA SAMA (IND) bt VALENTINA IVANOV (NZL) 64 26 63
[WD] SHIVANI INGLE (IND)/ SATHWIKA SAMA (IND) l TAMARA ANDERSON (NZL)/ NINA PARIPOVICH (NZL) 26 36

Our girls r finished on third place after beating New Zealand girls ... In the first single Mahak won it comfortably losing only 2 games ... In the second singles Sathwika faced tough challenge from Ivanov but she came through in three sets ... Other hand top-seed Japanese girls win the title comfortably beating Thai girls.

At $759K Porsche Tennis Grand Prix 2016, Stuttgart, Germany (Clay)

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,278) bt Tena Lukas (CRO,265) 67(4) 76(2) 75

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,278) vs (8) Kristyna Pliskova (CZE,83)

Ankita is playing in big Porsche WTA tournament ... In the first qulifying round she again showed her comeback skill against little higher ranked Croatian Tena Lukas .... Ankita lost the first set in tie-break but then she fought back for winning the second set in tie-break ... She completed win after winning another tight set, this match was going on for almost for three hours ... She is next meeting Czech big server and top 100 Kristyna Pliskova.

At € 2.4M Barcelona ATP 500, Spain

[Q1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,247) l (2) Karen Khachanov (RUS,136) 46 63 36

Doubles
[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (FRA) vs (WC) Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP)/ David Marrero (ESP)

RamK gives fighting performance in his loss against top 150 talented Russian Karen Khachanov.

This week Rohan is playing with Rojer and in the first round they r facing local wild-card pair.


At $25K China F5 Futures, Taizhou

[SF] (7) N Vijay Sunder Prasanth (IND,542) l (1) Nicolas Barrientos (COL,291) 26 16

VSP was no match to top-seed Barrientos.

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