Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Tennis News

At French Open 2016, Roland-Garros

Doubles
[QF] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) l (3) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 46 46
[QF] (16) Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) l (5) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Bob Bryan (USA) 67(12) 36

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Alize Cornet (FRA)/ Jonathan Eysseric (FRA) 67(6) 64 10-8

[QF] Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (5) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Bruno Soares (BRA)
[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) vs (7) Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR)

Junior
[R2] Karman Thandi (IND,42) l (5) Dayana Yastremska (UKR,10) 36 06

[R1] Jaimee Fourlis (AUS)/ Karman Thandi (IND) bt (3) Amina Anshba (RUS)/ Elena Rybakina (RUS) 64 63

[R2] Jaimee Fourlis (AUS)/ Karman Thandi (IND) vs Amanda Anisimova (USA)/ Caty McNally (USA)

Bad start for our players after 2 days long rain break ... Our challenge in men's doubles is over as our both pairs lose their respective matches.

Sania-Dodig score excellent comeback win over French pair in well fought match ... After losing the first set our pair fought back for winning the second ... In match tie-break after 0-2 down they took control and converted 3rd match point for entering into the semis.

In the singles Yastremska proves too strong for Karman, but in the doubles she upset 3rd seed Russian pair in straight sets with her Aussie partner Jaimee Fourlis ... Next they r facing American pair.


At $50K Manchester Challenger, Great Britain

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (3) Jonathan Marray (GBR)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) 63 76(5)

Terrific start of grass court season for Divij and Purav as they beat 3rd seed and grass court doubles pair Marray and Shamasdin in straight sets.

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

[Q1] (5) Natasha PALHA (IND) bt Gulchekhra MUKHAMMADSIDIKOVA (UZB) 62 63
[Q2] (5) Natasha PALHA (IND) bt (10) Komola UMAROVA (UZB) 60 46 75

[R1] (7) Ankita RAINA (IND,296) l Olga DOROSHINA (RUS,451) 64 16 46
[R1] (Q) Natasha PALHA (IND,550) l Veronika KUDERMETOVA (RUS,405) 36 36

Disappointing week for Ankita as she loses in the first round after reaching semis in the last week.

At $25K Uzbekistan F4 Futures, Namangan

[Q1] (6) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) bt Rasul AKHMADALIEV (UZB) 26 60 63
[Q2] (6) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND) bt (10) Grigoriy REYTMAN (UZB) 62 62

[R1] (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,514) bt (LL) Batyr SAPAEV (UZB,1856) 61 57 4-1 retd.
[R1] (Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND,1671) bt (Q) Kirill KOMAROV (RUS,2062) 63 61

[R2] (6) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,514) l Vitaly KOZYUKOV (RUS,835) 57 75 16
[R2] (Q) Shahbaaz KHAN (IND,1671) l (Q) Sergey FOMIN (UZB,UNR) 36 64 36

After good last this week was so-so considering Bala lose against lowly ranked Russian ... Shahbaaz also misses opportunity of going deep in this tournament as an qualifier.

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