Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Tennis News

At French Open 2016, Roland-Garros

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Tatjana Maria (GER)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA)
[R1] Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Robert Farah (COL)
[R1] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) vs (WC) Mathilde Johansson (FRA)/ Tristan Lamasine (FRA)

Mixed doubles draw r out ... Sania with Ivan Dodig is 2nd seed and they r facing local wild-card pair ... Lee is back playing with Martina and they r facing Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah in the first round ... Rohan is playing with Russian Alla Kudryavtseva and they r facing Nicolas Mahut and Tatjana Maria

At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Andijan, Uzbekistan

[R1] (5) Ankita RAINA (IND,278) bt (Q) Polina MERENKOVA (UZB,1224) 61 62
[R1] Natasha PALHA (IND,544) bt Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS,459) 62 61

[R2] (5) Ankita RAINA (IND,278) vs (Q) Valeria SAVINYKH (RUS,1058)
[R2] Natasha PALHA (IND,544) vs (2) Sabina SHARIPOVA (UZB,236)

Terrific winning start for Natasha over higher ranked Russian girl in dominating fashion ... Ankita also joins her in the second round with comfortable win ... In the second round Natasha is facing 2nd seed top-250 Uzbek player Sharipova and Ankta is facing Russian qualifier.

At $25K Uzbekistan Futures 2016, Andijan

[Q1] (5) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND,1678) bt Odil AKRAMOV (UZB,UNR) 63 46 76(5)
[Q2] (5) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND,1678) bt Rasul AKHMADALIEV (UZB,UNR) 61 63

[R1] (Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND,1678) bt Alexander OVCHAROV (RUS,1259) 64 62
[R1] (5) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,514) bt (Q) Sardor PULATOV (UZB,UNR) 75 61

[R2] (5) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND, 514) vs (WC) Saida'lo SAIDKARIMOV (UZB,2160)
[R2] (Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND, 1678) vs (6) Sanjar FAYZIEV (UZB,551)

Shahbaaz Khan qualified for main-draw and joins Bala in main-draw ... In main-draw Shahbaaz starts with straight sets win over his higher ranked Russian opponent ... Next he is facing 6th seed local player.

Bala also starts with straight sets win over local qualifier ... In the second round he is facing another local qualifier.

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