Friday, November 25, 2011

Tennis News
At Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, London, England
Group B
(4) Leander Peas (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt (1) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Bob Bryan (USA) 64 62

In their final tournament before another split, Indian Express delivered ... They defeated top-seed Bryans showing authority in 58 minutes ... Our pair take only break of the first set in 3rd game on Mike's serve when he double faulted ... In the second set Lee and Hesh broke Bob's serve twice in 1st and 5th game to won this match comfortably ... With this win Lee and Hesh evened their career record against the best doubles pair in history (on record) at 3-3.

With this win they qualified for the semis topping the Group A with 2-1 (W-L) record ... In the semis they will face challenge of Poles Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski.

Really sad to think this is their last tournament before split ... Please guys think over ur decision.

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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

[QF] Yuki BHambri (IND,384) l (3) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,201) 26 16

Yuki received beating from 3rd seed Yuichi Sugita in one-sided match ... Still good show by Yuki reaching in the quarters as unseeded player in this Japanese challenger.
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At $15K F11 India Futures, New Delhi

[SF] (8) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,578) bt (7) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,563) 76(3) 62
[SF] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,394) bt (4) Daniel COX (GBR,422) 63 64

Doubles Final
(1) Karan RASTOGI (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Vijayant MALIK (IND) 61 63

Vishnu won comfortably with a break in both sets against Cox ... Rohan also scored straight sets win over Ranjeet to enter in his second $15K futures final.

Karan and Vishnu lifted doubles title with convincing win.

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