Thursday, January 12, 2012

Tennis News
At $$434,250 Sydney International, Australia

[QF] Leander Peas (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) l (1) Mike Bryan (USA)/ Bob Bryan (USA) 67(5) 67(7)

In the first set both pairs didnot lose a serve though Lee and Radek saved a break point ... Bryans won the tie-break on single mini-break ... In the second set Lee and Radek were up with early break 4-1 but Bryans fought back to make it 5-all .. In tie-break also Lee and Radek were up with mini-break, 2-1, but again Bryans tfought back and made it 4-5 ... Bryans had a match point at 6-5 but our pair saved on their serve ... Bryans had another match point with mini-break at 7-6 but this time our pair broke Bryans to save that ... Bryans converted 3rd match point at 8-7 with another mini-break and cmpleted victory in 1 hour and 35 minutes.

Overall encouraging performance from this new pair of Lee and Radek against Bryans.

-----------------------------------------------------------
At $10K Turkey F1 futures, Antalya

[Q3] (6) Sanam SINGH (IND,887) bt (13) Cheong-Eui KIM (KOR,1139) 64 64

[R1] (Q) Sanam SINGH (IND,887) bt (WC) Vaja UZAKOV (UZB,1507) 67(5) 60 63

[R2] (Q) Sanam SINGH (IND,887) vs Ricardo RODRIGUEZ (VEN,674)

Heavy rain disrupted playing schedule at Antalya ... Now in 3 days Sanam need to play 6 matches if he reaches to the final.

Sanam produced strong comeback in the match after losing the first set against Vaja, who is former top-650 player ... Next Sanam is facing talented 17 yrs old Venezuelan Ricardo Rodriguez, tricky match.

No comments:

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...