Tennis News
At $442.5K SA Tennis Open, Johannesburg
[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,110) bt (WC) Rick De Voest (RSA,183) 36 76(5) 61
[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,110) vs (WC) Izak Van der merwe (RSA,170)
Somi started well breaking Rik's serve in the first game but from 3-1 he started to make too many unforced errors and lost next 5 games to lost first set ... In second set again Somi broke Rik's serve in 2nd game and take 3-0 lead ... Rik broke Somi's serve in 7th game to brought set on serves ... In tie-break Somi take early mini-break and that was enough to won second set ... In third set Somi was fighting for each point, he broke Rik's serve in first game on 4th break point ... He again broke Rik in 5th game to double break ahead ... In 7th game when Rik was serving to stay in the match he saved one match point but Somi take second match point to broke Rik third time in the set to won this match.
In semis he is facing another local wild-crad player, Izak Van der merwe
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At Asia/Oceania Group I,
Group A
India l Thailand 1-2
Ashvarya SHRIVASTAVA l Nicha LERTPITAKSINCHAI 26 06
Sania MIRZA bt Noppawan LERTCHEEWAKARN 62 60
Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI/ Sania MIRZA l Noppawan LERTCHEEWAKARN/ Nungnadda WANNASUK 63 06 57
This time we gave chance to Ashvarya in the first match but no luck ... In second match Sania played her best match of this Fed cup to scored dominating win over talented Noppawan ... In last match again we lost doubles against Thai pair after winning first set.
So with that we lost this tie 1-2 against Thai ... Now India will play play-off to stay in Group I against Chinese Taipei.
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At $15K Cambodia F2 Futures, Phnom Penh
[SF] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) bt (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,545) 61 60
[SF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) bt Arata Onozawa (JPN,602) 62 75
[F] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) vs N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677)
Doubles
[F] (4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) l (3) HUANG (TPE)/ LEE (TPE) 36 46
Another excellent win by Vijay Sundar Prashanth over higher ranked foreign player to reach his first futures final ... In the final he is having tough task of facing his senior and experienced opponent Karan, who toyed Ranjeet in other semis to scored very thumping win.
I m very excited for Karan ... Smart choice of tournaments selection from him after coming out of career threatening back surgery ... Now he will definitely going to concentrate more on playing challengers and tougher futures but most importantly he will get chance to play in grand slams qualifying.
At $442.5K SA Tennis Open, Johannesburg
[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,110) bt (WC) Rick De Voest (RSA,183) 36 76(5) 61
[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,110) vs (WC) Izak Van der merwe (RSA,170)
Somi started well breaking Rik's serve in the first game but from 3-1 he started to make too many unforced errors and lost next 5 games to lost first set ... In second set again Somi broke Rik's serve in 2nd game and take 3-0 lead ... Rik broke Somi's serve in 7th game to brought set on serves ... In tie-break Somi take early mini-break and that was enough to won second set ... In third set Somi was fighting for each point, he broke Rik's serve in first game on 4th break point ... He again broke Rik in 5th game to double break ahead ... In 7th game when Rik was serving to stay in the match he saved one match point but Somi take second match point to broke Rik third time in the set to won this match.
In semis he is facing another local wild-crad player, Izak Van der merwe
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At Asia/Oceania Group I,
Group A
India l Thailand 1-2
Ashvarya SHRIVASTAVA l Nicha LERTPITAKSINCHAI 26 06
Sania MIRZA bt Noppawan LERTCHEEWAKARN 62 60
Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI/ Sania MIRZA l Noppawan LERTCHEEWAKARN/ Nungnadda WANNASUK 63 06 57
This time we gave chance to Ashvarya in the first match but no luck ... In second match Sania played her best match of this Fed cup to scored dominating win over talented Noppawan ... In last match again we lost doubles against Thai pair after winning first set.
So with that we lost this tie 1-2 against Thai ... Now India will play play-off to stay in Group I against Chinese Taipei.
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At $15K Cambodia F2 Futures, Phnom Penh
[SF] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) bt (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,545) 61 60
[SF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) bt Arata Onozawa (JPN,602) 62 75
[F] (1) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) vs N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677)
Doubles
[F] (4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) l (3) HUANG (TPE)/ LEE (TPE) 36 46
Another excellent win by Vijay Sundar Prashanth over higher ranked foreign player to reach his first futures final ... In the final he is having tough task of facing his senior and experienced opponent Karan, who toyed Ranjeet in other semis to scored very thumping win.
I m very excited for Karan ... Smart choice of tournaments selection from him after coming out of career threatening back surgery ... Now he will definitely going to concentrate more on playing challengers and tougher futures but most importantly he will get chance to play in grand slams qualifying.
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