Friday, October 28, 2016

Tennis News

At $7M BNP Paribas WTA Finals, Singapore

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/ Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) 76(9) 75

[SF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) vs (4) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS)

Sana-Martina started with tight win over Chan sisters in straight sets ... In the first set both pairs exchanged breaks and Chan broke Martina in 11th game for leading 5-6 ... Martina-Sania kept cool and broke Chans in 12th game for taking the set in tie-break ... Sania-Martina had multiple set points before winning this set after 20 points long tie-break ... In the second set also Martina was struggling to hold but our pair returning was helping them to opponents ... In 11th game our pair broke Chan and this time Martina hold for completing win.

At $50K Pune Challenger, India

[SF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,346) bt (2) Duckhee Lee (KOR,156) 62 75

[F] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,346) vs Sadio Doumbia (FRA,359)

Doubles
[SF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Nikola Milojevic (SRB)/ Danilo Petrovic (SRB) 64 62
[SF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l Luca Margaroli (SUI)/ Hugo Nys (FRA) 36 63 11-13

[F] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Luca Margaroli (SUI)/ Hugo Nys (FRA))

Prajnesh is in his first challenger level final beating talented Korean Duckhee Lee in straight sets ... In the final he is facing Frenchman Sadio Doumbia, who is also in his first challenger final ... Prajnesh won the first set with double break and despite Duckhee's resistance Prajnesh won the second set with break in 11th game.

In the doubles Purav-Divij reached in the final with comfortable win over Serbian pair ... In other semis Jeevan-VSP lost closely fought match in match tie-break against Margaroli-Nya.

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