Friday, November 18, 2011

Tennis News
At $50K Salzburg Challenger, Austria

[SF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l (2) Alexander Waske (GER)/ Lovro Zovko (CRO) 57 76(6) 8-10

After losing the first set our pair did excellent comeback to won the second set in tie-break after saving the match point ... In super tie-break our pair was up 8-6 but after that 2nd seed pair take couple of mini-breaks to win this match ... Still creditable performance by our pair against this experienced pair.
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At $15K F10 India Futures, Pune

Singles Semi Finals
(3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,395) bt (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,378) 62 67(3) 75
(Q) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,1514) bt (6) Ranjit Virali-Murugesan (IND,564) 36 64 Retd.

Doubles Final
(2) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Alexander Satschko (GER) bt (1) Karan Rastogi (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 46 76(1) 10-8

Vishnu struggled in the first set ... Made lots of UFEs and his service wasn't working ... Yuki broke him in 1st and 5th to win the first set comfortably ... In the second set both players hold their service games comfortably ... In 11th game Yuki had a break point but Vishnu saved it ... Vishnu won tie-break comfortably with couple of mini-breaks to take match in the decider ... Dog fight in the third set ... Both raised their game and played excellent tennis ... Vishnu take crucial break converting the first match point in 12th game to complete excellent comeback win ... Creditable comeback by Vishnu, who lost in their last 2 meetings at Nationals and Nigerian futures.

Ranjit started well and was better player on the court in the first set ... But after winning the first set he was troubling with shoulder ... Jeevan take full advantage of it breaking him once to won the second set ... After that Ranjit retired due to shoulder injury ... So singles final is between 2 Chennai players, Vishnu and Jeevan.

In doubles Rohan and Satschko scored excellent comeback win over top-seed pair of Karan and Vishnu ... After losing the first set they won the second set in tie-break ... In super tie-break Rohan and Satschko were 6-8 down and from here they won next 4 points to lift the title.

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