Thursday, July 07, 2016

Tennis News

At Wimbledon Open 2016, London, Great Britain

Doubles
[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) l (5) Tímea Babos (HUN)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 26 46

Mixed Doubles
[R3] (16) Leander Paes (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) l Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ Heather Watson (GBR) 63 36 26

Junior
[R1] Charlotte Robillard-Millette (CAN)/ Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) l (1) Olesya Pervushina (RUS)/ Anastasia Potapova (RUS) 67(4) 64 9-11

Indian challenge is over with Lee-Martina's loss in MXD ... They started well after winning the first set but in this match Martina was struggling with her game ... And from second set their opponents targeted Martina and she was making numerous errors from near net or missing simple overheads or hitting outside.

Surprisingly one-sided loss of Sania-Martina against Babos-Shvedova.

Karman-Charlotte started well against top-seed Russian pair after taking 4-2 lead but top-seed broke back and then won the first set in tie-break ... Karman-Charlotte fought back for winning the second set with a break ... In the final set both pairs tried hard as per match stat but Karman-Charlotte mostly had chance of closing the match as they broke Russian couple of times ... In 20th game Karman-Charlotte served back to back double faults from 30-all to lost the match ... Tough loss.


At $50K+H Todi Challenger, Italy

[R2] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,231) l (2) Marco Cecchinato (ITA,130) 67(6) 46

RamK give good fighting performance against Cecchinato in this match ... In the first set both players were neck to neck till tie-break ... In tie-break RamK had 2 set points at 6-4 but he lost next 4 points for losing the set ... In the second set Cecchinato took crucial break in 5th game, 2-3 and that break was enough for winning this set.

At $25K France F13 Futures, Bourg-En-Bresse (Clay)

[R2] (8) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,488) bt Laurent LOKOLI (FRA,523) w/o

[QF] (8) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,488) l (4) Jonathan EYSSERIC (FRA,347) 46 36

Doubles Final
[QF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Marat DEVIATIAROV (UKR) l Maxime HAMOU (FRA)/ Calvin HEMERY (FRA) 61 67(5) 8-10

Bala lost in the quarters against higher ranked Frenchman after receiving walkover from another French opponent ... In the doubles she and her doubles Ukrainian partner lose in match tie-break after winning the first set against French pair.


At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

[QF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Stefan Kozlov (USA)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 64 57 9-11

But our top-seed pair of Divij-Jeev lost in the quarters in closely fought match.

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