Thursday, March 03, 2011

Tennis News
At 2011 Davis Cup - World Group, Novi Sad, Serbia

Day 1
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,629) vs Viktor Troicki (SRB,18)
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,93) vs Janko Tipsarevic (SRB,45)

Day 2
[R3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman(IND) vs Ilija Bozoljac (SRB)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

Day 3
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,93) vs Viktor Troicki (SRB,18)
[R5] Rohan Bopanna (IND,629) vs Janko Tipsarevic (SRB,45)

Before match we got big blow as Mahesh and Leander withdraw due to injury ... Leander is out with a wrist injury while Bhupathi has recovering from a groin injury ... They have been replaced by Karan Rastogi and Yuki Bhambri in the Davis cup squad.

Change in Serbian team also, Ranked #168 Ilija Bozoljac included in Serbian team in place of Novak Djokovic.

Matches schedule is out and Rohan is playing first match against Troicki.


New rule change by ITF for Davis Cup dead rubber policy
If a tie is decided after the fourth rubber (ie one nation has a winning 3-1 lead after the first match on Sunday) and the fourth rubber lasts at least four sets, the fifth rubber will not be played unless both teams agree otherwise.

All five rubbers will still be played if one nation has a winning 3-0 lead after Saturday, or the tie is decided after the fourth rubber and the fourth rubber lasts only three sets. All dead rubbers will continue to be the best of three tiebreak sets.

The dead rubber policy previously applied to the Davis Cup Final only, but has now been extended to include all ties in the World Group, Zone Group I and Zone Group II. A total of 33 ties will be played this weekend.
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At $15K Australia Futures F2, Berri (grass)

[R2] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,363) bt Leon Frost (AUS,1278) 64 64

[QF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,363) vs (6) Brendan Moore (AUS,779)

Doubles
[SF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (3) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Bowen Ouyang (CHN) 61 63

[F] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (2) Chris Letcher (AUS)/ Brendan Moore (AUS)

Vishnu scored straight sets victory over Frost to move into quarters ... In quarters he is facing 6th seed Australian Brendan Moore ... In doubles semis Vishnu and Divij scored dominating win over Huang and Ouyang to move into final where they face 2nd seed Brendan Moore and his partner Chris Letcher.

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