Friday, March 25, 2011

Tennis News
At $3.645M Sony Ericsson Open, Miami, Florida, USA

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,73) bt (31) Milos Raonic (CAN,34) 76(5) 75
[R2] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,99) l (24) Maria Kirilenko (RUS,27) 75 36 06

[R3] Somdev Devvarman (IND,73) vs (6) David Ferrer (ESP,6)

Somdev started confidently breaking big serving Raonic in first game ... Again Sommy managed to break Raonic in 5th game to take 5-1 lead ... But in 8th game Sommy wasted 3 set points and Raonic managed to break back to make it 5-3 ... Then Raonic again broke Sommy in 10th game to make 5-all ... In tie-break Sommy take 5-1 lead Raonic saved another 2 set points before Sommy winning it ... In second set also Sommy struggled with his first serve percentage and Raonic broke him in marathon 3rd game to take early lead ... Sommy found opportunity in 8th game to broke back and he take it to make 4-all ... Then until 11th game both players hold their serve and in 12th game on Raonic's serve Sommy take chances and broke him @15 to won set and match in 2hours ... This is superb upset win over upcoming big thing on ATP tour.

So another showdown with top-10 player, this time Spanish WR #6 Devid Ferrer.

Kirilenko started match with breaking Sania's serve in first game to take 0-1 lead but Sania immediately broke back in next game to make it 1-all ... After that Kirilenko take control breaking Sania's serve twice to take 5-1 lead ... But Sania had different plan she won next 6 games breaking Kirilenko's serve thrice and also in that saved 3 set points in 8th game to won set after amazing comeback in the set ... Again in second set Kirilenko started with breaking Sania's serve but Sania immediately responded breaking Kirilenko's serve in 2nd and 4th games and take 3-1 lead ... After that instead of taking control of the match we experienced amazing meltdown ... Sania lost next 11 games to lost spectacularly ... It was shocking to see how any player lost from domianting situation without winning further any single game ... Sania lost this match in 2 hrs 26 mins.

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At $15K India F2 Futures, Kolkata

Singles Final
(1) Adam KELLNER (HUN) bt (5) Roko KARANUSIC (CRO) 63 61

Singles Semi Finals
(Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) l (1) Adam KELLNER (HUN) 26 16
(5) Roko KARANUSIC (CRO) bt (8) Nicolas REISSIG (AUT) 60 36 60

Doubles Final
(2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Srirambalaji Narayanswamy (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) 76(1) 76(5)

Kaza lost easily against top-seed in the semis ... But Divij and Vishnu won their back to back doubles title in this $15K future in 2 tie-breaks against Srirambalaji and Ashutosh.

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