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At 2011 Davis Cup - World Group, Novi Sad, Serbia
India l Serbia 1-4
Day 3
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,93) l Viktor Troicki (SRB,18) 46 26 57
[R5] Karan Rastogi (IND,285) l Janko Tipsarevic (SRB,45) 06 16
Defending champion Serbia completed win with Troicki scoring straight sets win over Somdev ... Match started with Troicki breaking Somi's serve but Somi immediately broke back to bring on the serve ... Crucial break of the match came in 9th game when Somi wasted game points with unforced errors and Troicki take advantage to break it ... Then he hold after deuce to won first set ... In second set Troicki take control from the start and breaking Somi's serve twice he won second set comfortably ... In third set Somi started positively and broke Troicki's serve in 4th game to take 3-1 lead but Troicki immediately broke back in next game ... On 6th game more drama happened ... Troicki hit out and Somi pointed out but lady chair umpire thought Somi told it was in and she gave point to Serbia ... Then for next 10 mins Somdev and our captain S.P. Misra were talking with match referee and complaining about chair umpire but in end as expected decision was stand which was declare by umpire ... Troicki take crucial break in 11 games and then hold his serve after deuce to gave win to Serbia.
In this match most of the games were went into deuce ... Somdev was unlucky and made unforced errors on crucial points and that cost him the match ... Still overall impressive performance in this tie ... Many positives to take from this tie where Lee and Hesh were missing.
In last rubber, we gave chance to Karan ... Though Tipsarevic toyed with him to scored one-sided win, still good experience for Karan for future matches.
-----------------------------------------------------------At 2011 Davis Cup - World Group, Novi Sad, Serbia
India l Serbia 1-4
Day 3
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,93) l Viktor Troicki (SRB,18) 46 26 57
[R5] Karan Rastogi (IND,285) l Janko Tipsarevic (SRB,45) 06 16
Defending champion Serbia completed win with Troicki scoring straight sets win over Somdev ... Match started with Troicki breaking Somi's serve but Somi immediately broke back to bring on the serve ... Crucial break of the match came in 9th game when Somi wasted game points with unforced errors and Troicki take advantage to break it ... Then he hold after deuce to won first set ... In second set Troicki take control from the start and breaking Somi's serve twice he won second set comfortably ... In third set Somi started positively and broke Troicki's serve in 4th game to take 3-1 lead but Troicki immediately broke back in next game ... On 6th game more drama happened ... Troicki hit out and Somi pointed out but lady chair umpire thought Somi told it was in and she gave point to Serbia ... Then for next 10 mins Somdev and our captain S.P. Misra were talking with match referee and complaining about chair umpire but in end as expected decision was stand which was declare by umpire ... Troicki take crucial break in 11 games and then hold his serve after deuce to gave win to Serbia.
In this match most of the games were went into deuce ... Somdev was unlucky and made unforced errors on crucial points and that cost him the match ... Still overall impressive performance in this tie ... Many positives to take from this tie where Lee and Hesh were missing.
In last rubber, we gave chance to Karan ... Though Tipsarevic toyed with him to scored one-sided win, still good experience for Karan for future matches.
At $35K Kyoto Challenger, Japan
[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,367) vs (5) Dominik Meffert (GER,211)
Doubles
[R1] (1) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Yaoki Ishii (JPN)/ Kento Takeuchi (JPN)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (WC) Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Bumpei Sato (JPN)
Tough singles first round match for Vishnu against 5th seed German Dominik Meffert ... In doubles Purav is top-seed with Treat ... In doubles our both pairs playing against local wild-card pairs.
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