Saturday, September 17, 2011

Tennis News
At Davis Cup Play-off 2011, Japan

Japan vs India 2-1
Day Two
[R3] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Tatsuma Ito (JPN)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 75 36 63 76(4)

In the first set we broke Sugita's serve in 3rd game but then Mahesh lost his serve in 8th game with UFEs and double faults ... We take crucial break on Sugita's serve in 11th game to won the first set ... In the second set Japanese pair broke Rohan's serve in 6th game and that break was enough to won the second set for Japan ... In the third set Hesh and Bops broke Sugita's serve in 4th game ... Japanese pair fought back breaking Mahesh's serve in 7th game but immediately our pair broke Ito's serve and then Rohan hold to won the third set ... In fourth set Japanese pair take early break to lead 1-4 but while Ito was serving for the set at 3-5 our pair broke back and take this set in tie-break ... After trading early mini-breaks our take crucial mini-break to lead 5-4 and then Rohan served to complete victory.

Though we win still very inspired game by Japanese pair, especially Sugita ... Labored win by our top 10 quality doubles pair ... We prevailed by our players huge experience.

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At $35K+H Ningbo Challenger, China
Doubles Final
Karan Rastogi (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Jan Hernych (CZE)/ Jurgen Zopp (EST) 36 76(3) 13-11

Karan and Divij produced excellent comeback victory to lift doubles title at Ningbo ... After losing the first set our pair was leading 5-3 in the second but lost their serve while serving for the set ... In tie-break they dominated to win with double mini-break ... Both players fought hard in super tie-break where our pair prevailed tough challenge from opponents ... This is Karan's second challenge title and other hand this is Divij's first challenge title.
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At $10K USA F23 Futures 2011, Claremont

Doubles Final
(4) Alexandre Lacroix (FRA)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Vladimir Obradovic (SRB)/ Vignesh Peranamallur (IND) 63 61

Sanam and his French partner comfortably won the doubles title in this US Futures ... They defeated Vignesh and his Serbian partner losing only 4 games ... In the morning Sanam and Vignesh went to Costa Mesa for playing qualifying first round at US F24 Futures before coming back at Claremont for doubles final, Costa Mesa was 50 miles from Claremont.
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At $10K USA F24 Futures 2011, Costa Mesa

[Q1] [2] Vignesh Peranamallur (IND, 962) l Xin Gao (CHN, 1629) 46 26
[Q1] [5] Sanam Singh(IND, 1149) bt Nathaniel Gorham (USA, 1493) 62 60
[Q1] Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND, 1787) bt Deiton Baughman (USA,UNR) 64 75
[Q1] Suraj Desai (IND,UNR) l Alexandru Gasca-Silav (ROU,UNR) 67(2) 16

[Q2] (5) Sanam Singh(IND,1149) vs Rogan Egerton (GBR,UNR)
[Q2] Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (IND,1787) vs Felix Van Kann (GER,UNR)

Sanam scored dominating win over Gorham ... Winning start for Sunil after long lay over ... But Vignesh lost against his Chinese opponent.

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