Saturday, July 08, 2017

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

[R2] (13) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Naomi Broady (GBR)/ Heather Watson (GBR) 63 36 64

[R3] (13) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (3) Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Martina Hingis (SUI)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Eri Hozumi (JPN) bt James Cerretani (USA)/ Renata Voracova (CZE) 57 64 62

[R2] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) bt Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Raluca Olaru (ROU) 76(2) 75
[R2] (4) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Yusuke Watanuki (JPN)/ Makoto Ninomiya (JPN) 76(5) 62

[R2] Purav Raja (IND)/ Eri Hozumi (JPN) vs (11) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Andreja Klepac (SLO)

[R3] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) vs Nikola Mektic (CRO)/ Ana Konjuh (CRO)
[R3] (4) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ Heather Watson (GBR)

Juniors
[R1] (15) Zeel Desai (IND,19) bt Naho Sato (JPN,50) 61 61

[R2] (15) Zeel Desai (IND,19) vs Marta Paigina (RUS,191)

Sania=Kirsten entered into the third round with three sets win over a local pair ... They r facing 3rd seed Hingis-Chan.

Rohan-Gabriela scored hard fought win in straight sets against Martin-Olaru ... Purav with Hozumi completed victory after winning the third set ... Sania-Dodig also scored straight sets win over their Japanese opponents.

Zeel scored dominating win over Japanese girl Naho Sato losing only 2 games ... Next, she is having a tough match against Russian girl Paigina, who is currently ranked #351 on WTA tour and already won 10 ITF women's titles, this year she won the title on clay.


At $25K China F11 Futures 2017, Shenzhen

[SF] (3) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,259) bt (2) Zhe Li (CHN,253) 63 76(9)

[F] (3) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,259) vs Zhizhen Zhang (CHN,716)

Prajnesh is in the position of winning back to back futures title in China ... In the semis, he defeated similar ranked Chinese Zhe Li in straight sets ... After losing the first set Zhe gave a fighting performance in the second but Prajnesh won the long tie-break on extra points ... In the final, he is facing unseeded Chinese Zhizhen Zhang.

At $15K Sri Lanka F3 Futures 2017, Colombo

[R1] (1) Sumit Nagal (IND,342) bt Nino Portales (FRA,1653) 3-0 retd.
[R2] (1) Sumit Nagal (IND,342) bt Mikhail Korovin (RUS,1069) 61 1-0 retd.
[QF] (1) Sumit Nagal (IND,342) bt Pierre Faivre (FRA,995) 64 36 61
[SF] (1) Sumit Nagal (IND,342) bt (7) Yurii Dzhavakian (UKR,848) 60 62

Singles Final
(1) Sumit Nagal (IND,342) bt (2) Carlos Boluda-Purkiss (ESP,546) 61 61

Sumit scored dominating win over his 2nd seed Spanish opponent losing only 2 games for lifting the title ... This was his 2nd futures title in three weeks, last week he was retired in the semis due to stomach bug ... Otherwise he was on the course of making hattrick of Sri Lanka futures titles.

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