Sunday, May 22, 2016

Tennis News

At French Open 2016, Roland-Garros

Doubles
[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs (WC) Stephane Robert (FRA)/ Alexandre Sidorenko (FRA)
[R1] (16) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs Aliaksandr Bury (BLR)/ Denis Istomin (UZB)
[R1] Ivo Karlovic (CRO)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (9) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Alexander Peya (AUT)
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Daria Kasatkina (RUS)/ Alexandra Panova (RUS)

Doubles draw r out ... Sania-Martina r playing Russian girls in the first round.

In men's doubles draw, Lee is 16th seeded with Marcin Matkowski in bottom draw and they r facing Aliaksandr Bury and Denis Istomin in the first round ... Rohan and Florin r in top-draw and facing local wild-card pair in the first round ... Purav and Karlovic r playing against 9th seed Kubot and Peya.


At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Singles Final
(4) Sri Vaishnavi PEDDI REDDY (IND,656) l Theo GRAVOUIL (FRA,820) 67(5) 46

Vaishnavi fails to overcome Gravouil's challenge for winning her first ITF title ... In the first set both players hold their respective service games but Vaishnavi lost the set in tie-break despite 9 aces in this set ... In the second set with a single break advantage Gravouil won the final.

Indian girls Prerna Bhambri and Nidhi Chilumula lifted doubles title beating another Indian girl Pranjala Yadlapalli and her Thai partner Tamachan Momkoonthod in match tie-break, 36 75 10-7.

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