Friday, May 13, 2016

Tennis News

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

[QF] (1) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Raquel Atawo (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA) 64 62

[SF] (1) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/ Monica Niculescu (ROU)

Another comfortable straight sets win for Sania and Martina for entering into the semis ... Next they r facing another Olympics bound Romanian pair.

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

[QF] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) 63 64

[SF] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs (8) Vasek Pospisil (CAN)/ Jack Sock (USA)

Good to see straight sets win for Rohan and Florin against German-Serbian pair ... In the semis they r facing Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock.

At $50K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan

[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,240) bt (2) Radu Albot (MDA,140) 64 64

[SF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,240) l Ruben Hidalgo (ESP,318) 62 67(5) 67(0)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND)/ Riccardo Ghedin (ITA) l Denis Matsukevich (RUS)/ Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 46 06

Looks like tiredness catch with RamK as his match against Hidalgo was 9th match in 11 days ... RamK started well with comfortably winning the first set ... In the second set two times RamK was break down but both times he broke back to take this set in tie-break ... In tie-break RamK was up 4-2 before losing it ... In the final set also both players held respective service games to take it to tie-break but again this time Hidalgo dominated it and won it without losing a point.

Before that RamK scored big win of this year as he defeated top-140 Radu Albot in straight sets for entering into the semis ... In the first set both players exchanged early break but RamK took crucil break in 9th game for winning the set ... In the second set also RamK took crucial break in 7th game for 4-3 lead and kept that advantage for winning the match.

Jeevan-Riccardo lose in straight sets against Matsukevich-Vasilevski.


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

[QF] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,663) bt Deborah CHIESA (ITA,946) 16 63 64

[SF] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,663) vs Olesya PERVUSHINA (RUS,648)

Karman scores another comeback win over local Italian player after losing the first set ... In the semis she is facing current JR WR #13 Russian Olesya Pervushina.

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