Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Tennis News

At French Open 2016, Roland-Garros

Doubles
[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Daria Kasatkina (RUS)/ Alexandra Panova (RUS) 76(4) 62

[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROU) bt (WC) Stephane Robert (FRA)/ Alexandre Sidorenko (FRA) 62 62
[R1] (16) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) bt Aliaksandr Bury (BLR)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) 76(3) 76(6)

[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Nao Hibino (JPN)/ Eri Hozumi (JPN)

[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs (WC) Gregoire Barrere (FRA)/ Quentin Halys (FRA)
[R2] (16) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Florian Mayer (GER)

Winning start for our pairs ... Sania-Martina start with straight sets win against Russian pair ... Next they r facing Japanese pair.

Rohan-Florin win comfortably against local wild-card pair ... In the second round they r facing another local wild-car pair.

Lee-Marcin had tricky first round match but they overcome Bury-Istomin challenge in two tie-breaks ... Next they r facing experienced doubles players Knowle and Mayer.


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

[R2] (5) Ankita RAINA (IND,278) bt (Q) Valeria SAVINYKH (RUS,1058) 64 61
[R2] Natasha PALHA (IND,544) l (2) Sabina SHARIPOVA (UZB,236) 16 26

[QF] (5) Ankita RAINA (IND,278) vs (4) Natela DZALAMIDZE (RUS,268)

This is really good win by Ankita over experienced Valeria Savinykh, who is former top-100 player and making comeback after really long injury break ... Next Ankita is facing similar ranked Russian girl Natela ... Other hand expected but little disappointing one-sided loss of Natasha.

At $25K Uzbekistan Futures 2016, Andijan

[R2] (5) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND, 514) bt (WC) Saida'lo SAIDKARIMOV (UZB,2160) 63 36 61
[R2] (Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND, 1678) l (6) Sanjar FAYZIEV (UZB,551) 36 26

[QF] (5) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND, 514) vs (4) Markos KALOVELONIS (RUS,494)

Bala gets stretched by local wild-card player to three sets ... Next he is facing similar ranked Markos ... Shahbaaz runs ended with his loss against top-550 Uzbek player.

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