Monday, July 04, 2016

Tennis News

At Wimbledon Open 2016, London, Great Britain

Doubles
[R3] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) l (10) Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ John Peers (AUS) 62 36 46 76(6) 6-8
[R3] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Christina McHale (USA)/ Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 61 60

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (13) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) bt Treat Huey (PHI)/ Alicja Rosolska (POL) 63 75
[R2] (16) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Artem Sitak (NZL)/ Laura Siegemund (GER) 64 64

[R3] (13) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) vs Juan Sebastián Cabal (COL)/ Mariana Duque (COL)

Sania-Martina reach into quarters lsoing only single game against McHale-Ostapenko ... Very dominating win by Sania-Martina, now hoping they will continue with same form in remaining match.

Rohan-Florin lose in five sets against 10th seed Kontinen-Peers ... After winning the first set easily Rohan-Florin lost next two sets ... They fought back for winning the fourth in tie-break but failed to keep momentum in the fifth and lost in extra games.

Rohan-Rodionova r in the third round with straight sets victory and next they r facing Olympic bound Colombian pair for place in the quarters ... Lee-Martina r also in the third round with straight sets win over German pair.


At $50K+H Bastad Challenger, Sweden

[R1] (Q) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,406) l Andrey Rublev (RUS,203) 76(3) 57 67(3)

Creditable fighting performance by Prajnesh against top-200 type Russian Rublev in very close match ... Prajnesh won the first set in tie-break but was break down in the second ... He fought back but again Rublev broke him on crucial stage for taking match into decider ... In the final set also Prjnesh lost his serve but again he fought back and took set into tie-break ... Here Prajnesh became tight and made few errors for losing the set but still encouraging performance.

At $50K+H Todi Challenger, Italy

[Q2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,231) bt Sergio Galdos (PER,UNR) 63 67(2) 62

[Q3] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,231) bt Benjamin Bonzi (FRA,447) 64 61

[R1] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,231) vs Enrique López-Pérez (ESP,211)

Doubles
[R1] Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Steven Diez (CAN)/ David Pérez Sanz (ESP)

RamK qualifies for main-draw with comfortable win over top-500 Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi ... But before that surprisingly he was stretched to three sets by un-ranked player ... In first round he is facing Spanish player Enrique López-Pérez and in the doubles he is partnering Italian Riccardo Ghedin.

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