Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Tennis News -
At $600K Bank of the West Classic, Stanford, USA (Tier II)

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,33) l (Q) Anne Keothavong (GBR,82) 67(4) 16

Sania should blamed herself for this loss ... She played self destructing game with numerous unforced errors ... In second set she wasn't looking in the match and played like just sake of completing match .. Poor performance by Sania.
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At $525K Indianapolis Tennis Championships,

[R1] (WC) Rajeev Ram (USA,210) bt (6) Fabrice Santoro (FRA,60) 76(6) 64
[R1] Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK,198) l Wayne Odesnik (USA,104) 46 57

[R2] (WC) Rajeev Ram (USA,210) vs Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,77)

Doubles -
[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mmahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs (WC) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Frederic Niemeyer (CAN)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (4) Igor Kunitsyn (RUS)/ Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 26 75 10(6)
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA) bt Chris Guccione (AUS)/ Robert Kendrick (USA) 76(5) 46 10(4)

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Ashley Fisher (AUS)/ Tripp Phillips (USA)

This was a superb comeback win for Rohan and Aisam ... Kunitsyn and Tursunov were dominating most of the match, including the second set ... They created several opportunities to break in the second set and even had a set point, but Rohan and Aisam hung tough and then earned an opportunity to break at 5-5 ... Then they carried their momentum to score yet another supertiebreaker win.

Rajeev scored quality victory over Santoro, but Aisam lost his singles match.

Lee and Hesh having match against Canadian pair, WR No. 1 Daniel Nestor and Niemeyer ... This will be dress rehearsal match before Olympics, as these both teams r playing in Olympics with same combination.

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At €30K+H Manchester Challenger, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] (Q) Purav Raja (IND,892) l (2) Pavel Snobel (CZE,206) 46 46

[R1] (4) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Pavel Chekhov (RUS)/ Niels Desein (BEL) 63 62

Commendable performance by Harsh to perform well in doubles after that shocking loss in singles.
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At $15K Syria F2 Futures, Damascus

[R2] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,837) bt (Q) ABDULNOUR Marc (SYR,UNR) 61 63
[R2] SINGH Navdeep (IND,839) l (6) SITAK Dmitri (RUS,641) 67(5) 36
[R2] VM Ranjeet (IND,1002) l (8) ARSENOV Danila (RUS,705) 16 26

[QF] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,837) vs (6) SITAK Dmitri (RUS,641)

Doubles -
[QF] (3) RUCKELSHAUSEN Richard (AUT)/ SINGH Navdeep (IND) l INSAUSTI Jean-Noel (FRA)/ TASSART Antoine (FRA) 67(4) 36
[QF] (2) GAJJAR Rohan (IND)/ VM Ranjeet (IND) l BEIDAS Bassam (LIB)/ COJANU Ioan-Alexandru (ROU) 57 67(2)

So now only Rohan remaing in singles draw.
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At $ 15k Great Britain F10 , Frinton on Sea (Grass)

[R1] SHARAN Divij (IND,742) l (4) SEATOR Edward (GBR,503) 62 46 16

Doubles -
[R1] (4) SHARAN Divij (IND)/ SADECKY Alexander (SUI) bt BRADSHAW Timothy (GBR)/ BRASSINGTON Kyle (GBR) 76(3) 64

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