Sunday, November 20, 2011

Tennis News
At Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, London, England

Group B
[R1] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l (3) Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) 67(2) 6-4 9-11

Mirnyi and Nestor take 2-0 and 4-2 leads but both time Bops and Aisam fought back breaking Nestor's serve ... Bops and Aisam wasted a sudden death set point on Mirnyi's serve at 5-4 ... After that Mirnyi and Nestor take control of tie-break to won the first set ... In the second set Bops and Aisam saved 3 break points from 0-40 on Aisam's serve in 2nd game ... They broke Nestor's serve in 5th game and then kept this advantage to win the second set ... In super tie-break Bops and Aisam take early lead with mini-break, 3-1 ... But when they were leading 6-3 Mirnyi and Nestor came back taking mini-break to level 6-all ... Bops and Aisam again take lead with mini-break, 8-6, but again Mirnyi and Nestor broke back ... Bops and Aisam saved a match point at 8-9 but Mirnyi and Nestor take crucial mini-break on 19th point on Aisam's serve ... Nestor served ace to complete the victory.
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At $35K+H Toyota Challenger, Japan

[R1] Yuki BHambri (IND,384) vs Catalin Gard (ROU,516)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Peng Gao (CHN)/ Wan Gao (CHN)

Yuki is in singles and getting favorable draw ... Purav and Divij r 2nd seed in doubles and facing tricky Chinese pair in the first round.
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At $15K F11 India Futures, New Delhi

[R1] (1) Junn MITSUHASHI (JPN,388) vs Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,909)
[R1] Ivan ARENAS-GUALDA (ESP,670) vs James MARSALEK (GBR,795)
[R1] Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,820) vs (Q) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1317)
[R1] (7) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,563) vs Jaime PULGAR-GARCIA (ESP,868
[R1] (3) Karan RASTOGI (IND,400) vs (WC) Saketh MYNENI (IND,UNR)
[R1] (SE) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,1511) vs (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1374)
[R1] Richard BECKER (GER,594) vs (Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND,UNR)
[R1] (8) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,578) vs (Q) Abdulla Maqdas (KUW,973)
[R1] (6) Nikolaus MOSER (AUT,523) vs Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND,992)
[R1] (Q) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,1006) vs (Q) Keita KOYAMA (JPN,1334)
[R1] (Q) Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,1802) vs (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA,1326)
[R1] (4) Daniel COX (GBR,422) vs Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA,777)
[R1] (5) Vijayant MALIK (IND,490) vs (Q) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,UNR)
[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,697) vs Mate PAVIC (CRO,892)
[R1] (WC) Kunal ANAND (IND,1802) vs (WC) Saurabh SINGH (IND,UNR)
[R1] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,394) vs Alexander SATSCHKO (Ger,785)

Unbelievable draw, cruel is an understatement ... Karan, Saketh, Jeevan, Ramkumar and Mohit Mayur r getting worst possible draw.

This week I m hoping upset from Ramkumar as Junn is struggling with his fitness ... Saketh can upset Karan, this is huge match of the first round ... Other hand good opportunity of grabbing their first ranking point of Indian futures for Sunil, Balaji, Kunal and Saurabh.

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