Monday, September 05, 2016

Tennis News

At US Open 2016, New York, USA

Doubles
[R3] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) bt Nicole Gibbs (USA)/ Nao Hibino (JPN) 64 75

[QF] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) vs (1) Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) l Barbora Krejcikova (CZE)/ Marin Draganja (CRO) 36 46

[QF] Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Robert Farah (COL) 61 26 8-10

Juniors
[R1] (Q) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,77) bt Wiktoria Kulik (POL,41) 26 63 62

[R1] Zhima Du (CHN)/ Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) l I-Hsuan Cho (TPE)/ Yuki Naito (JPN) 46 63 5-10

[R2] (Q) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,77) vs (16) Alexandra Sanford (USA,20)

Sania-Strycova entered into the quarters with straight sets win over Gibbs-Hibino ... After winning the first set our pair were down 3-5 but Sania-Strycova won next four games for completing victory in two sets ... Now their real test is in next match against top-seed French girls.

After winning the first set Rohan-Gabriela lost the second ... In match tie-break they were 3-0 and then 7-5 up before losing the match ... These type of losses r becoming story for us in this US open ... Before that surprisingly Sania-Dodig lost in straight sets against unknown pair.

Pranjala scored comeback win against her Polish opponent ... She ws totally off-color in the first set where she managed to win only 12 pts ... In the second set after 3-all she broke Kulik in 7th and 9th games for winning the set ... In the final set Pranjala broke Kulik in 4th and 8th games for comfortably winning it ... In the second round she is facing top-550 WTA ranked American Alexandra Sanford.


At $$125K Dalian Women's Tennis Open 2016, China

[Q2] (6) Ankita Raina (IND,288) l (2) Kai-Chen Chang (TPE,199) 16 46

As expected former top-100 Kai-Chen Chang proved too strong for Ankita.

At $125K+HK Genova Challenger, Italy

[R1] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,202) vs (6) (WC) Denis Istomin (UZB,107)

Unlucky to see RamK is facing Istomin in the first round.

At $$50K St. Remy Challenger, France

[R1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs David O'Hare (IRL)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR)

Divij-Purav r playing in French challenger and they r top-seed.

At $50K Shanghai Challenger , China

[R1] Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND)/ Amir Weintraub (ISR) vs Ti Chen (TPE)/ Jason Jung (TPE)

Jeevan is partnering Amir Weintraub and they r facing Taipei pair in the first round.

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