Monday, November 21, 2011

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

Group A
[R1] (4) Leander Peas (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l (6) Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 67(6) 16

Worst possible start for our pair ... There were 4 breaks of serve in the first set, which Lindstedt and Tecau could have won the set 6-4, but Lindstedt hit a double fault on sudden death deuce ... Lee and Mahesh converted only 2 of 11 break points in this set ... In tie-break our pair had 2 set points at 6-4 but they failed to covert it ... In the second set Mahesh lost his serve twice to and our pair lost this set easily.
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At $15K F11 India Futures, New Delhi

[R1] (1) Junn MITSUHASHI (JPN,388) bt Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,909) 62 64
[R1] James MARSALEK (GBR,795) bt Ivan ARENAS-GUALDA (ESP,670) 57 63 61
[R1] (Q) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND,1317) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,820) 63 75
[R1] Richard BECKER (GER,594) bt (Q) Lakshit SOOD (IND,UNR) 63 63
[R1] (6) Nikolaus MOSER (AUT,523) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND,992) 64 62
[R1] (Q) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,1006) bt (Q) Keita KOYAMA (JPN,1334) 60 60
[R1] (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA,1326) bt (Q) Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND,1802) 64 64
[R1] (WC) Kunal ANAND (IND,1802) bt (WC) Saurabh SINGH (IND,UNR) 62 76(5)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Karan RASTOGI (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 57 64 10-7
[R1] (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt Saurabh PATIL (IND)/ Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 60 62
[R1] (3) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Alexander SATSCHKO (GER) bt (WC) Rishabdev RAMAN (IND)/ Saurabh SINGH (IND) 61 75
[R1] (4) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Kirati SIRIBUTWONG (THA) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 76(5) 64

Disappointing loss of Sunil against fellow Thai qualifier ... Ramkumar is struggling on Indian futures though he was facing top-seed ... Abhijeet scored upset win over Kaza and Kunal earned his first ATP point of Indian futures ... Balaji double bagel Japanese qualifier.

Bad day for Kaza as he lost in doubles first round with Vivek against 4th seed Thai pair ... Jeevan and Ranjeet stretched top-seed Karan and Vishnu in their match but dominated start for Saketh and Mohit Mayur in doubles.

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