Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Tennis News

At €2.4M Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2016, Rome, Italy (WTA Premier 5)

[R2] (1) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) 63 63

[QF] (1) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Raquel Atawo (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA)

Another comfortable winning start for Sania-Martina against Hsieh-Kalashnikova for entering into the quarters.

At €2.4M Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2016, Rome, Italy

[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt Benoit Paire (FRA)/ Joao Sousa (POR) 67(5) 64 10-8

[QF] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB)

Good comeback win by Rohan-Florin against Sousa-Paire after losing the first set.

At $100K+H Seoul Challenger, Korea

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Sam Groth (AUS) bt (WC) Yeongseok Jeong (KOR)/ Dae-Hee Lee (KOR) 64 62
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Mitchell Krueger (USA) 64 62

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Sam Groth (AUS) vs Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Chu-Huan Yu (TPE)
[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)

Our both pairs start with comfortable straight sets.

At $50K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,240) bt (Q) Markos Kalovelonis (RUS.510) 64 63

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,240) vs Steven Diez (CAN,247)

RamK starts with straight sets win over Russian qualifier ... In both sets he was 4-1 up with a break and both times he gave break back but recovered to broke again for winning the match ... He is playing second round against in-form Canadian clay-court specialist Steven Diez.

At $10K ITF Women Tournament, Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy (Clay)

[R1] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,663) bt (6) Alice SAVORETTI (ITA,659) 36 64 76(6)

[R2] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,663) vs Federica ARCIDIACONO (ITA,719)

Karman scores impressive comeback win against similar ranked Italian opponent ... After losing the first she won the second but in the third Karman was down 1-4 ... Again she fought back and took this set in tie-break ... In tie-break also she saved couple of match points at 4-6 before winning it ... Next she is facing another Italian girl.

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