Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Tennis News
News update,

Mahesh denied any split report between him and Lee ... Happy to see that ... He tweeted saying - Just fin practice with Leander. Media with cameras perched in the trees and climbing the walls. Freaked out the members! Disappointed them!!
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At $15K F10 India Futures, Pune

[R2] (1) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,378) bt Yu CHANG (CHN,868) 16 75 76(3)
[R2] (8) Richard BECKER (GER,604) bt (LL) Abdulla Maqdas (KUW,973) 67(6) 63 61
[R2] (3) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,395) bt Alexander SATSCHKO (GER,775) 62 61
[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,696) bt (7) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,592) 76(5) 63
[R2] (6) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,564) bt (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1369) 61 75
[R2] (4) Karan RASTOGI (IND,401) bt (WC) Saketh MYNENI (IND,UNR) 46 76(6) 76(6)
[R2] (5) Vijayant MALIK (IND,491) bt Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND,822) 60 61
[R2] (Q) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,1514) bt Ivan ARENAS-GUALDA (ESP,677) 63 64

Doubles
[QF] (1) RASTOGI (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt SHARMA (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) 63 64
[QF] NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt BALAJI (IND)/ MALIK (IND) 64 64
[QF] JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ MYNENI (IND) bt (WC) KADHE (IND)/ RAMANATHAN (IND) 76(2) 63
[QF] (2) GAJJAR (IND)/ SATSCHKO (GER) vs CHANG (CHN)/ MARSALEK (GBR)

Vishnu and Vijayant scored very dominating wins ... Sad to see Kaza's one-sided loss against Vijayant ... Ranjit also moved to quarters with striaght sets victory over Mohit ... Jeevan scored straight sets upset win over Spanish player ... After winning the first set in tie-break Karunuday comfortably take the second set.

As expected match of the day played between Karan and Saketh ... Saketh won the first set with a single break ... From the beginning Karan was struggling with adjusting his game with Saketh ... Somehow he managed to control his emotions and take crucial mini-break to won the second set tie-break ... In the third set Saketh take the break in 7th game when Karan committed double fault but while serving for the match at 5-4 Saketh failed to hold his serve ... Karan started 11th game with double fault but managed to hold it ... In tie-break Karan handled his nerve better ... He wasted one match point but converted second to complete remarkable comeback victory ... As per report both played quality tennis ... Saketh showed excellent composure while facing this top-350 type player, I m impressed ... He adjusted really well to higher level of the game against Karan ... Saketh served 25 aces in this match and other hand Karan saved 4 match points ... I think if draw permit then Saketh having good chance to go deeper in next 2 futures.

Yuki started the match with too many flashy shots and missed those ... I think seeing lower ranked Chinese he was bit relaxed from the start and that almost cost him this match ... In the second set also he was struggling on his serve and hold his service games after duece but take crucial break in 12th game ... He also received court violation warning for showing anger on the court ... Yuki saved 2 match points at 5-4 and 40-15 in the second set ... In the third set also Yuki kept repeating same mistakes and Yu Chang take advantage of unforced errors to break in 1st game ... Yu kept that lead until late of the set but Yuki broke Yu when he was serving for the set at 5-4 ... Then both players hold their serves to take this final set in tie-break ... Yuki take early mini-break to lead 4-2 and then he double faulted when serving for the match at 6-2 ... Won next point to complete hard fought victory ... I like the way Yuki digging deep when he wasn't playing well in this match ... Despite bad day at the office he managed to complete the victory.

Karan and Yuki both had a confidence boosting comeback wins in these tough matches ... Despite bad games lots of positives to take from these matches for the future.

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