Friday, February 10, 2012

Tennis News
At $220K Pattaya Open, Thailand

[QF] Sania Mirza (IND,111) l (Q) Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE,159) 57 36

Doubles
[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) vs (3) Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/ Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN)

Lost too many chances in this match ... She was up 5-3 in the first set before losing next 4 games and in the final set Sania managed to hold her service once and got broken 3 times ... Really disappointing game by her.

Sania was leading with early break, 5-3, but lost her serve in 10th and 12th games to lose the first set ... In the second set Sania lost her serve in 2nd, 4th and 6th games and she broken Hsieh in 3rd and 5th games ... Poor serving through out the match for Sania.

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At $50K+H Quimper Challenger, France

[QF] (4) Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Maxime Teixeira (FRA) 57 46

Lost against French pair in the quarters.
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At $15K China F3, Mengzi

[QF] (7) Vijayant MALIK (IND,472) l (4) Jozef KOVALIK (SVK,356) 63 67(2) 64
[QF] (5) Karan RASTOGI (IND,404) l (3) Antal VAN DER DUIM (NED,341) 46 16

Doubles Final
(2) Karan RASTOGI (IND)/ Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt (1) Peng GAO (CHN)/ Hiroki KONDO (JPN) 62 64

Vijayant made brilliant start with winning the first set ... In the second set both players were holding their serves ... Vijayant needed to save 3 set points in 12th game but Slovak proved too strong in tie-break ... Jozef won the final set with a single break but Vijayant gave good fighting performance against top-350 type player.

Rohan and Karan lifted title in doubles beating top-seed pair in straight sets but Karan lost one-sided in singles quarter-final.

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