Monday, July 07, 2008

Tennis News -
At $385K Campbell's HoF championship, Newport, USA

[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,374) bt Kevin Kim (USA, 178) 63 64

[R2] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,374) vs (1) Mardy Fish (USA,41)

So Bops started well with easy victory over higher rank Kim ... In this match Bops hit 15 aces but also made 7 double faults ... Both players had poor first serve percentage, Kim was 29% and Bops was 47%.

So now Bops meeting top-seed Mardy Fish in the second round ... Here I m backing up Rohan's win on atrocious past records of top-seed at Newport tournament.

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At $15K Syria F1 Futures, Damascus

[R1] (Q) PC Vignesh (IND,1466) bt IDOKO Candy (NGR,1071) 46 63 75
[R1] (Q) MAKHARIA Rahil (IND,UNR) bt (Q) CHAMI Wael (SYR,UNR) 62 62

[R2] (Q) MAKHARIA Rahil (IND,UNR) vs EMMANUEL Sunday (NGR,1314)
[R2] (Q) PC Vignesh (IND,1466) vs (6) SITAK Dmitri (RUS,693)

Doubles -
[R1] (4) RUCKELSHAUSEN Richard (AUT)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) bt COJANU Ioan-Alexandru (ROU)/ VORONTSOV Iliya (RUS) 64 62
[R1] (3) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ SOMOGYI Alexander (SVK) bt EMMANUEL Sunday (NGR)/ IDOKO Candy (NGR) 64 75

[QF] (4) RUCKELSHAUSEN Richard (AUT)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) vs ONOZAWA Arata (JPN)/ TAKEUCHI Kento (JPN)
[QF] (3) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ SOMOGYI Alexander (SVK) vs (WC) CHAMI Wael (SYR)/ IBRAHIM Abrahim (SYR)

Today our players had 2 singles and 2 doubles matches ... And they won all their matches ... Qualifier PC Vignesh scored fighting comeback victory over higer rank Nigerian.

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