Friday, March 09, 2012

At $35K+H Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,280) l (5) Tatsuma Ito (JPN,105) 67(5) 76(4) 36

Doubles
[SF] Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Hsin-Han Lee (TPE) 36 63 7-10

Yuki played impressive match against top-100 typle local Davis cup player Tatsuma Ito ... In the first set Yuki saved a break point on his serve in 6th game and take set into tie-break ... Yuki lost tie-break with mini-break after leading 5-4 ... In the second set Ito broke Yuki in 5th game to take 4-2 lead but Yuki fought back breaking him in 8th game to make it 4-all ...In the tie-break Yuki take 4-2 lead which helped him to win the set ... In the decider Yuki missed 2 break points opportunities in 1st game and Ito take crucial break on Yuki's serve in 6th game ... And with this single break advantage Ito won this match in 2 hours and 36 minutes converting 2nd match point.

Yuki played a very close match ... Overall 115 points against 119 by Ito ... Ito had 10 aces as compared to 7 by Yuki ... Ito had 9 double faults as compared to 2 by Yuki ... Breakpoints converted 2 out of 6 for Ito as against 1 out of 6 for Yuki.

This time Purav and Malek Jaziri failed to win super tie-break ... After losing the first set they made excellent comeback winning the second set but in STB Taipei pair proved strong.

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At $10K+H India F3 Futures 2012, Bhimavaram

Singles Semi Finals
Saketh MYNENI (IND,689) bt (8) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,554) 64 64
Sanam SINGH (IND,776) bt (7) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,540) 63 61

Doubles Final
(2) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 75 63

Saketh gave clinical performance despite troubling with injury ... He take a single break in both sets to scored straight sets victory ... In the first set he take break in 7th game and in the second set he take break on 9th game on Jeevan's serve ... Saketh didn't face a single break point on his serve and served staggering 19 aces in his 10 service games.

Ranjeet started well breaking Sanam's serve in 2nd game to lead 2-0 but after that Sanam showed ruthless game and won 12 games from next 14 games to scored comfortable win and his third final in three weeks ... He has good opportunity of grabbing the third futures title in a row but having good challenge of big serving Saketh in the final.

Saketh lifted doubles title with Rohan Gajjar ... They defeated Vijay Sundar and Arun-Prakash in straight sets.

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