Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Tennis News

At Asia/ Oceania Group I Davis cup 2016 - 2nd Round, India

I am really pleasantly surprised by AITA move to play the Davis cup tie against Korea in July on grass courts at Chandigarh club ... As per AiTA this was players suggestion ... With current injury list we can see different type of combination in the team.

At €4.8M Mutua Madrid Open, Spain

[R2] (1) Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Darija Jurak (CRO) 60 64

Sania and Martina start with comfortable straight sets win over Chuang and Jurak for entering into the quarters.

At €4.8M Mutua Madrid Open 2016, Spain

[R1] (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) bt Guido Pella (ARG)/ Gilles Simon (FRA) 67(3) 75 10-7

[R2] (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) vs (7) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Nenad Zimonjić (SRB)
[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Mergea (ROU) vs Pablo Cuevas (URU)/ Marcel Granollers (ESP)

Mahesh and Fabrice start with fighting comeback win over Pella and Simon after losing the first set in tie-break ... Good win considering Mahesh's lack of match fitness ... Next they r facing 7th seed Peya and Zimo ... Rohan and Florin r facing Cuevas and Granollers.

At $100K Busan Challenger, South Korea

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Sam Groth (AUS) bt Daniel Nguyen (USA)/ Di Wu (CHN) 63 76(4)

Winning start for Lee and Sam against American-Chinese pair though they stretched to tie-break in the second.

At $100K ITF Women's Tournament, Anning, China (Clay)

[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND,287) vs Kamila KERIMBAYEVA (KAZ,425)

This week Ankita is playing in big China tournament and having winnable first round match.

At $50K Rome Challenger, Italy

[R1] (Q) Sumit Nagal (IND,409) bt Hiroki Moriya (JPN,209) 57 63 61 susp.

[R2] (Q) Sumit Nagal (IND,409) vs (5) Filip Krajinovic (SRB,114)

Sumit completes amazing comeback for scoring big win in Rome challenger against top-225 Japanese opponent Hiroki Moriya ... Yesterday when match was stopped Sumit was break down after losing the first set ... But today he won 12 out of 14 games ... This is huge win after qualifying for main-draw ... Next he is facing tough challenge of top-125 Serbian Filip Krajinovic.

At $50K+H Karshi Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND)/ Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP) bt (WC) Sanjar Fayziev (UZB)/ Markos Kolvoelonis (RUS) 76(1) 57 10-5

[QF] Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) / Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP) vs Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE) / Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)

Fighting winning start for Jeevan with his new Spanish partner in match tie-break.

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