Friday, April 29, 2011

Tennis News
At €416,650 Serbia Open 2011, Belgrade

[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,71) l (7) Janko Tipsarevic (SRB,36) 36 63 46

Janko started positively and immediately broke Sommy in 2nd game ... This one break was enough to Janko to won first set ... In second set Janko broke Sommy in first game but Sommy immediately broke him in next game to bring set on the serve ... Sommy take crucial break in 8th game breaking Janko's serve after the deuce ... And then Sommy hold comfortably to won second set ... In decider who take early break was going to be in driving seat ... Janko take early break in 4th game to take lead ... After that Sommy had a break point on Janko's serve but he failed to break it ... While serving for the match Janko was down 0-40, he saved 3 break points but Sommy converted fourth to bring the set on serve ... But while serving for the stay in the match Janko broke him to won this match in 2 hrs and 40 mins.

Overall Sommy showing improvement but in this match he failed to take advantage of Janko's second serve, whose first serve percentage was 36% in the first and third set ... Need to work on that.

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At €450K Estoril Open, Portugal

[SF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l (3) Eric Butorac (USA)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (AHO) 26 46

Getting walkover in quarters didn't help Rohan and Aisam ... They lost easily against third seeds in semis.
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At €3.5M Madrid Open, Spain

[Q1] (8) Sania Mirza (IND,76) bt Alexandra Panova (RUS,136) 16 62 61

[Q2] (8) Sania Mirza (IND,76) vs Varvara Lepchenko (USA,82)

Sania wasted 3 break points in 3rd game and then lost her twice in 4th and 6th games to lose first set easily in 37 mins ... But from second set Sania started to find her range and she created 7 break point opportunities ... Sania converted 3 break points and lost her serve in 6th game to won this set convincingly ... In decider Sania played near perfect game on the clay ... She didn't face a single break point on her serve and broke Panova in 4th and 6th game to complete easy victory after losing first set.
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At $10K India F5, Chennai

Singles Semi Finals
(Q) Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE,1768) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,611) 36 64 62
(2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,340) bt (4) Julien DUBAIL (BEL,451) 46 62 61

Doubles Final
PRASHANTH (IND)/ RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt SIE (INA)/ SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 75 64

Damn, disappointing loss of Vijay Sundar against 1750 plus ranked Swedish qualifier ... He lost after winning first set ... Other hand Vishnu continued with his dream form to reach third final in three weeks and aiming for third Indian futures title in a row ... After losing first set he won next two sets comfortably against Dubail.

Vijay Sundar lifted doubles title with Arun-Prakash beating Thai-Indonesian pair.

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