Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Tennis News
At Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I 2012,

As expected we r getting first round bye as top-seed and will face winner between Uzbek and New Zealand in round two ... So for us Uzbek will be away tie and if New Zealand wins then that would be a home tie.
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At $450K BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy, Bucharest, Romania

[R1] Alessandro Motti (ITA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Jordan Kerr (AUS)/ Travis Parrott (USA) 26 16

Turned very tough outing for Purav with his Italian partner ... They lost match in just 51 mins losing services twice in each set.
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At $125K Tashkent Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R2] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,453) l Denya Molchanov (UKR,290) 76(4) 36 57

Doubles
[QF] Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l (3) John Paul Fruttero (USA)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA) 57 16

In the first set both players were holding their service games comfortably ... In 11th game Vishnu saved 2 break points ... In tie-break Vishnu take early mini-break to lead 2-0 but Molchanov fought back taking mini-break back at 4-5 ... Vishnu take double mini-break on Molchanov's serve to won the first set ... In the second set Vishnu missed break point opportunities early but Molchanov broke him in 4th game and saved few more break points in his next service game ... This break was enogh for Molchanov to won the second set ... In the third set Vishnu take important break in 6th game to lead 4-2 but Molchanov immediately broke back to bring the set back on serve, 4-3 ... Vishnu wasted 3 more break points in 8th game and in next game Vishnu saved a break point on his serve ... But Molchanov take crucial break on 11th game ... Vishnu saved a match point but Molchanov converted 2nd to complete victory ... Big missed opportunity for Vishnu after getting lucky break in a draw ... He had a big chance of reaching quarters of this big challenger.

Third seed pair take important break in 11th game to won the first set and then they dominated to won the second.

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At $10K USA F24 Futures 2011, Costa Mesa

[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh(IND,1149) l (2) Daniel Cox (GBR,310) 64 67(3) 46

Sanam fought well in this match ... He won the first set and had opportunity to won this match but lost it ... Despite Cox high ranking I feel Sanam should start winning these matches if he is aiming high.

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