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At Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, London, England
Group A
(4) Leander Peas (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER)
After disappointing first 3 days at last Mahesh and Lee managed to score victory in ATP Tour Finals ... After their one sided loss against Lindstedt and Tecau this was much needed victory for them ... Now for qualifying for the semis they still have herculean task to beat Bryans in their last match.
Indians broke Petzschner in 4th game but Petzschner and Melzer fought back breaking Mahesh's serve in next game ... In 12th game Lee and Mahesh had 4 set points at 0-40 but Petzschner saved 3 of those with big serves but our pair won next on sudden death deuce to win this set ... In the second set Mahesh saved break points in 5th game and then broke Petzschner when hit 2 double faults from 30/30 in 8th game ... Then Mahesh hold her serve to love and completed the victory ... Now Mahesh and Lee having 1-1 (W-L) record in the ATP Tour Finals.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan
[R1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Peng Gao (CHN)/ Wan Gao (CHN) 76(1) 67(5) 5-10
Very close but tough loss for 2nd seed Purav and Divij against futures level Chinese pair ... They lost super tie-break easily but before that both pairs shared a set in tie-breaks.
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At $15K F11 India Futures, New Delhi
[R2] (1) Junn MITSUHASHI (JPN,388) bt James MARSALEK (GBR,795) 26 76(1) 76(1)
[R2] (7) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,563) bt (Q) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1317) 64 62
[R2] (WC) Saketh MYNENI (IND,UNR) bt (SE) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,1511) 46 62 62
[R2] (8) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,578) bt Richard BECKER (GER,594) 61 75
[R2] (Q) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,1006) bt (6) Nikolaus MOSER (AUT,523) 76(7) 63
[R2] (4) Daniel COX (GBR,422) bt (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA,1326) 63 75
[R1] (5) Vijayant MALIK (IND,490) bt Mate PAVIC (CRO,892) 16 62 63
[R2] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,394) bt (WC) Kunal ANAND (IND,1802) 64 61
Doubles
[QF] (1) Karan RASTOGI (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) 64 46 10-6
[QF] Richard BECKER (GER)/ Nikolaus MOSER (AUT) bt (3) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Alexander SATSCHKO (GER) 64 63
[QF] (4) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Kirati SIRIBUTWONG (THA) bt Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 64 63
[QF] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) 63 60
After losing the first set Saketh comfortably won next two against last week's $15K futures title winner Jeevan ... Superb upset win by Balaji over Austrian seeded Moser in straight sets ... So 6 Indians r in singles quarters but in doubles only 2 Indian pair in the semis.
At Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, London, England
Group A
(4) Leander Peas (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Petzschner (GER)
After disappointing first 3 days at last Mahesh and Lee managed to score victory in ATP Tour Finals ... After their one sided loss against Lindstedt and Tecau this was much needed victory for them ... Now for qualifying for the semis they still have herculean task to beat Bryans in their last match.
Indians broke Petzschner in 4th game but Petzschner and Melzer fought back breaking Mahesh's serve in next game ... In 12th game Lee and Mahesh had 4 set points at 0-40 but Petzschner saved 3 of those with big serves but our pair won next on sudden death deuce to win this set ... In the second set Mahesh saved break points in 5th game and then broke Petzschner when hit 2 double faults from 30/30 in 8th game ... Then Mahesh hold her serve to love and completed the victory ... Now Mahesh and Lee having 1-1 (W-L) record in the ATP Tour Finals.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan
[R1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Peng Gao (CHN)/ Wan Gao (CHN) 76(1) 67(5) 5-10
Very close but tough loss for 2nd seed Purav and Divij against futures level Chinese pair ... They lost super tie-break easily but before that both pairs shared a set in tie-breaks.
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At $15K F11 India Futures, New Delhi
[R2] (1) Junn MITSUHASHI (JPN,388) bt James MARSALEK (GBR,795) 26 76(1) 76(1)
[R2] (7) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,563) bt (Q) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1317) 64 62
[R2] (WC) Saketh MYNENI (IND,UNR) bt (SE) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,1511) 46 62 62
[R2] (8) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,578) bt Richard BECKER (GER,594) 61 75
[R2] (Q) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,1006) bt (6) Nikolaus MOSER (AUT,523) 76(7) 63
[R2] (4) Daniel COX (GBR,422) bt (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA,1326) 63 75
[R1] (5) Vijayant MALIK (IND,490) bt Mate PAVIC (CRO,892) 16 62 63
[R2] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,394) bt (WC) Kunal ANAND (IND,1802) 64 61
Doubles
[QF] (1) Karan RASTOGI (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) 64 46 10-6
[QF] Richard BECKER (GER)/ Nikolaus MOSER (AUT) bt (3) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Alexander SATSCHKO (GER) 64 63
[QF] (4) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Kirati SIRIBUTWONG (THA) bt Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 64 63
[QF] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) 63 60
After losing the first set Saketh comfortably won next two against last week's $15K futures title winner Jeevan ... Superb upset win by Balaji over Austrian seeded Moser in straight sets ... So 6 Indians r in singles quarters but in doubles only 2 Indian pair in the semis.
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