Saturday, July 02, 2016

Tennis News

At Wimbledon Open 2016, London, Great Britain

[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) bt Andrej Martin (SVK)/ Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI) 75 62

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)/ Laura Siegemund (GER) 62 75

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

Expected straight sets win for Rohan and Florin against challenger level pair.

Sania-Martina at last starts their title defense with straight sets victory over German pair ... Next they r facing Japanese pair.


At $125K Braunschweig Challenger, Germany (Clay)

[Q2] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND,409) bt Petr Michnev (CZE,540) 67(3) 76(5) 63

[Q3] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND,409) vs Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER,733)

Very hard fought win for Sumit against his Czech opponent Michnev ... After losing the first set in tie-break Sumit needed to dig deep for winning the second set in tie-break ... And then with multiple breaks he won the final set ... Next he is facing former top-100 German player Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, who is continue with his comeback after long injury layoff.

At $50K+H Bastad Challenger, Sweden

[Q2] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,406) bt Jonathan Mridha (SWE,971) 75 64

[Q3] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,406) vs (6) Fred Simonsson (SWE,678)

Straight sets win for Prajnesh against local player ... In the final qualifying he is facing another Swedish player.

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