Saturday, May 14, 2016

Tennis News

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

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

[F] (1) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (7) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS)

Sania-Martina score comfortable straight sets win over Romanian pair ... In the final they r facing Russian pair.

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

[SF] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) l (8) Vasek Pospisil (CAN)/ Jack Sock (USA) 67(4) 67(2)

Rohan-Florin lose in two t-breaks against Pospisil-Sock ... Rohan having big task of performing really well at French open for climbing back inside top-10 before Olympics deadline of 6th June.

At $100K+H Seoul Challenger, Korea

[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Chu-Huan Yu (TPE) 76(5) 36 8-10

Divij-Purav lose in match tie-break against Gong-Yu ... Divij-Purav were serving for the set at 5-3 but failed to hold but they recovered for winning tie-break ... In the second set our pair was up with a break at 2-1 but afterwards Gong-Yu started to hold their services comfortably and putting extra pressure on our pair ... In match tie-break our pair won 4 points in a row from 2-4 for leading 6-4 but from 7-5 they managed to win one point only for losing the match.

At $50K+H Bangkok-3 Challenger, Thailand

[Q1] (4) Sanam Singh (IND,394) bye
[Q1] Siddharth Rawat (IND,610) bt Kento Takeuchi (JPN,435) 75 63

[Q2] Siddharth Rawat (IND,610) vs (4) Sanam Singh (IND,394)

Good upset win by Sid over his higher ranked Japanese opponent ... But next he is facing Sanam for place in the final qualifying.

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

[SF] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,663) l Olesya PERVUSHINA (RUS,648) 67(7) 16

Karman lose in straight sets against Olesya ... In the first set Karman was neck to neck with Olesya but failed to chllenger her in the second.

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