Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2017, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) 64 36, 12-10

Juniors
[R3] Zeel Desai (IND,43) bt (5) Olga Danilovic (SRB,13) 3-5 retd.

[QF] Siddhant Banthia (IND)/ Kaya Gore (TUR) l Finn Reynolds (NZL)/ Duarte Vale (POR) 26 57

[QF] Zeel Desai (IND,43) vs (16) Elena Rybakina (RUS,30)

Sania and Doddig scored superb comeback victory ... After one set all, they were 3 match points down in super tie-break, 6-9 ... They kept their nerves to win 6 of the next 7 points for winning this match.

Zeel received lucky break as her Serbian opponent, talented Olga Danilovic, retired after leading in the first set ... Zeel's next opponent is Russian girl Elena Rybakina ... In boys doubles, Sid and Kaya lost against Vale and Reynolds in straight sets.


At Davis Cup Asia/ Oceania Group 2017 - 1st Round, Pune, India

Indian Team - Saketh Myneni, Yuki Bhambri, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Leander Peas.

New Zealand Team - Finn Tearney (S-414), Jose Statham (S-418), Michael Venus (D-38) and Artem Sitak (D-61)

The final four members teams r chosen and Indians r looking favorite in this tie on the paper.

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