Thursday, November 17, 2011

Tennis News
At $50K Salzburg Challenger, Austria

[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Maximilian Neuchrist (AUT)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 62 62

[SF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (2) Alexander Waske (GER)/ Lovro Zovko (CRO)

Another comfortable win by Purav and Divij but next tough match against experienced doubles players.
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At $15K F10 India Futures, Pune

[QF] (1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,378) bt (8) Richard BECKER (GER,604) 75 75
[QF] (3) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,395) bt Karunuday SINGH (IND,696) 61 64
[QF] (6) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,564) bt (4) Karan RASTOGI (IND,401) 36 64 61
[QF] (Q) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,1514) bt (5) Vijayant MALIK (IND,491) 63 61

Doubles
[SF] (1) RASTOGI (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ SINGH (IND) 76(3) 63
[SF] (2) GAJJAR (IND)/ SATSCHKO (GER) bt JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ MYNENI (IND) 75 36 10-8

Today Vijayant had bad day and Jeevan played according to plan to take advantage of it ... Jeevan scored really dominating win over Vijayant to book place in the semis ... In this futures Vishnu is in good form ... He is producing clinical performances one after another ... Today also he scored comfortable win over Karunuday.

Karan won the first set but Ranjt fought back to win the second ... From the second set onward Karan struggled to read Ranjit's game and his powerful returns ... Ranjit take a break in 4th game and then another break in 6th game to complete his victory ... Ranjit overpowered Karan in the third to win this match.

Yuki take crucial break in 12th game to win the first set .. In the second set also Yuki broke Becker's serve in 12th game to complete the victory.

In doubles top 2 seeds pairs r in the final in contrasting style ... Saketh and Mohit Mayur gave fighting performance against Rohan and Satschko but failed to convert in a win in STB ... But still creditable performance by last week's winner pair.

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