Saturday, March 05, 2011

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

India vs Serbia 1-2

Day 2
[R3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman(IND) l Ilija Bozoljac (SRB)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 64 36 46 67(10)

Zimo started match and hold it easily, then Bops served well to make it 1-all ... Then Indian take first break on Bozoljac's serve but Serbian pair immediately broke Somi's serve to make it 2-all ... Again Indians broke Bozoljac's serve in 7th game but this time also Somi failed to hold his serve to make it 4-all ... In 9th game Indians broke Zimo's serve and then Rohan served out to win first set ... In second set Serbian started with different plan and Bozoljac served first ... Serbian pair again broke Somi's serve in 4th game to take 1-3 lead ... Somi first time hold in the match in 8th game but one break was enough to won second set ... In third set again Serbian broke Somi's serve in 3rd game and that was enough to won third set ... Fourth set Indian started positively and broke Bozoljac's serve in 4th game to take 3-1 lead but Serbian pair fought back and broke Somi's serve in 7th game to brought back on serve ... In 11th game Indians were lucky to hold their serves ... In tie-break first 6 points went on serve then Somi gave first mini-break on Bozoljac's serve hitting down the line service winner ... But Serbian immediately take mini-break back on Rohan's serve to make it 4-all ... Somi saved first match point with big serve to make it 6-all ... At 10-9 Rohan missed easy volley and then Somi hit out and gave 4th match point to Serbia, who converted this to won this rubber and take 1-2 lead.
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At $15K Australia Futures F2, Berri (grass)

[SF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,363) l (4) Benjamin Mitchell (AUS,522) 61 67(2) 57

After winning first set easily Vishnu lost very tight next 2 sets to 2010's Wimbledon Junior runner-up Benjamin Mitchell ... Wasted good chance of acculumating more ranking points.

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