Thursday, July 28, 2016

Tennis News

At $2.7M Roger Cup 2016, Montreal, Canada (WTA Premier 5)

[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Naomi Broady (GBR)/ Shelby Rogers (USA) 61 61

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs Christina McHale (USA)/ Asia Muhammad (USA)

Expected comfortable winning start for Sania and Martina against young British-American pair ... In the quarters they r facing another young pairing of McHale and Muhammad.

At $50K Lexington Challenger, USA

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,196) l Andrew Whittingtton (AUS,207) 67(4) 64 46

Doubles
[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt (2) Dean O'Brien (RSA)/ Ruan Roelofse (RSA) 64 62

[SF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (4) Luke Saville (AUS)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS)

RamK misses huge opportunity of completing win in straight sets as he was two breaks up before losing the first set in tie-break ... RamK took early lead and was up 41 with double break ... Andrew fought back winning next 4 games breaking RamK twice, 4-5 ... RamK managed to take the set in tie-break but here Andrew proved strong ... In the second set also RamK took a break and was serving for the set at 5-3 but this time also he failed to hold his serve in 9th game ... But this time RamK broke Andrew in 10th game for winning this set ... In the final set Andrew broke RamK in 5th game and kept that advantage for winning the set and match.

In the doubles Jeevan and RamK scored dominating upset win over 2nd seed South African pair ... In the semis they r facing 4th seed Aussie pair.


At $75K+H Segovia Challenge, Spain

[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (2) Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) 64 76(2)

Divij-Purav's terrific run continue ... They defeated 2nd seed Swedish pair in tight two sets for entering into the final.

At $100K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[QF] Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN) l Alexander Bublik (RUS)/ Daniil Medvedev (RUS) 67(10) 36

Hoping for couple of more wins after their upset win over top-seed in the first round ... But Russian pair dug deep for winning in straight sets.

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