Thursday, February 16, 2017

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2017 - Asia/ Oceania Group I - 2nd Round, Bangalore, India

The venue has been decided ... The Asia Oceania 2nd round between India and Uzbekistan would be played at Bangalore from 7-9 April 2017 ... So home debut for Mahesh as non-playing captain.

At $776K Qatar Total Open 2017, Doha

[R1] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) bt Raquel Atawo (USA)/ Yifan Xu (CHN) 62 64

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) bt Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Darija Jurak (CRO) 64 63

[SF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) vs (4) Abigail Spears (USA)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)

Sania and Strycova r in the semis with back to back two wins in a day ... In the quarters they defeated Dabrowski and Jurak in straight sets ... Before that, in the first round, they started with comfortable win against American-Chinese pair ... In the semis they r facing 4th seed Spears and Srebotnik.

At €1.8M ABM Amro World Tennis Tournament 2017, Rotterdam, Netherlands

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Tomas Berdych (CZE) l (3) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcel Granollers (ESP) 36 46

Rohan with Berdych lost in the quarters against 3rd seed pair.

At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2017, Perth, Australia

[R1] (1) Irina Maria BARA (ROU)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Masa JOVANOVIC (AUS)/ Alexandra WALTERS (AUS) 63 61
[QF] (1) Irina Maria BARA (ROU)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Naiktha BAINS (AUS)/ Abigail TERE-APISAH (PNG) 46 62 10-7
[SF] (1) Irina Maria BARA (ROU)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) bt Jennifer ELIE (USA)/ Sherazad REIX (FRA) 64 64

[F] (1) Irina Maria BARA (ROU)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) vs (2) Junri NAMIGATA (JPN)/ Riko SAWAYANAGI (JPN)

Prarthana is playing $25K ITF tournaments in Australia ... She and her Romanian partnerIrina Maria Bara r top-ssed ... They r in the final and facing 2nd seed Japanese pair for the title.

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