Sunday, September 18, 2016

Tennis News

At Davis Cup World Group Play-off 2016, New Delhi, India

India l Spain 0-5

Day one
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,203) l Feliciano Lopez (ESP,26) 46 46 63 16
[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,137) l David Ferrer (ESP,13) 16 26 16

Day Two
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) l Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 64 67(2) 46 46

Day Three
[R4] Sumit Nagal (IND,380) l Marc Lopez (ESP,UNR) 36 61 36
[R5] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,203) l David Ferrer (ESP,13) 26 26

In reverse singles India gave chance to Sumit for debut against doubles specialist Marc Lopez ... Sumit gave encouraging performance in first 2 sets but in the third he struggled with humid condition ... Marc took full advantage of it for winning it ... In the last rubber David Ferrer proved too strong to RamK.

At $1M Toray Pan Pacific Open, Tokyo, Japan (WTA Premier)

[R1] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) vs Misaki Doi (JPN)/ Kurumi Nara (JPN)

Sania and Strycova r facing Japanese pair in the first round.

At $923K St. Petersburg Open, Russia

[R1] (PR) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (PR) Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (4) Andres Molteni (ARG)/ Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)

This week three Indians players r playing at St. Petersburg Open ... Purav and Divij r facing 4th seed South American pair in the first round ... Lee and Andre r facing Serbian pair.

At $125K Kaohsiung Challenger, Taiwan

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) vs (WC) Tung-Lin Wu (TPE)/ Ze Zhang (CHN)

Jeevan is playing with Tsung-Hua and they r facing Zhang-Wu.

At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Hua Hin, Thailand

[Q2] (5) Natasha PALHA (IND,633) bt (16) Ramu UEDA (JPN,1040) 62 64
[Q2] (7) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,655) bt (12) Nozomi FUJIOKA (JPN,940) 60 62

[R1] (Q) Natasha PALHA (IND,633) vs (1) Shiho AKITA (JPN,297)
[R1] (Q) Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,655) vs Jia-Qi KANG (CHN,485)

Tough first round for Natasha against top-seed and top-300 Japanese girl ... Karman is facing top-500 Chinese player.

At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Singles Final
Zeel DESAI (IND,UNR) l (3) Ana Bianca MIHAILA (ROU,664) 63 57 46

Zeel lost close match against Romanian Ana Bianca Mihaila in three sets ... Zeel won the first set but afterwards Zeel and Ana exchanged multiple breaks in the second ... Zeel was up 5-4 with a break but she failed to hold her serve while serving for the match ... Zeel lost 3 games in a row from 5-4 losing this set ... In the final set also repeated same story ... Firstly Zeel was break down 0-2 but she fought back for 2-all ... Zeel took break in 7th game for leading 4-3 but after that Mihaila won next 3 games, in that she broke Zeel in 8th and 10th games for a win.

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