Thursday, January 15, 2015

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2015, Melbourne

[Q2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,314) bt Yohishito Nishioka (JPN,165) 76(8) 63

[Q3] Yuki Bhambri (IND,314) vs Chase Buchanan (USA,179)

Yuki enter into his first grand slam final qualifying round taking revenge of his Asian games loss ... Nishioka started well breaking Yuki in 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... After that Yuki served well and he broke Nishioka in 7th game to bring set on the serve ... In tie-break Yuki was down 1-4 and then 2-5 but he won next two points on Nishioka's serve and then take crucial mini-break on 17th points after saving couple of set points ... Then hold to win the first set ... In the second set Yuki broke Nishioka in sixth game to lead 4-2 and he kept that lead for winning the match ... Next he is meeting his friend from junior time American Chase Buchanan.
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At $519K Heineken Open 2015, Auckland, New Zealand

[QF] (4) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Oliver Marach (AUT) 46 63 10-6

[SF] (4) Raven Klassen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (2) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA)

Another comeback win for Lee and Raven in super tie-break ... Good to see that they r producing these wins in their early start of partnership ... Next they r having real test against WR #2 pair Peya and Soares.
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At $731K Apia International Sydney, Australia (WTA Premier)

[SF] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)/ Karolina Pliskova (CZE) 62 61

[F] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (1) Raquel Kops-Jones (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA)

Sania is in terrific nick with Bethanie ... They beat Karolina Pliskova and Kimiko Date-Krumm losing only three games ... In the final they r facing top-seed American pair.
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At $50K Casablanca Challenger, Morocco

[SF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) l Laurynas Grigelis (LTU)/ Adrian Ungur (ROU)46 76(9) 4-10

Purav-Martin must save few match points in the second set before winning it in extra points but after that they lose momentum and manage to win only four points in match tie-break.

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