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At Davis Cup 2012 - Asia/ Oceania Group I, Uzbekistan
Indian Davis Cup Team
Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna, Yuki BHambri, Sanam Singh
Non-playing Captain - Shiv-Prakash Misra
Coach: Nandan Bal
Reserved player - Vishnu Vardhan
AITA announced Indian Davis Cup team for upcoming tie against Uzbekistan ... Somdev Devvarman is injured (mostly operation on his shoulder injury) so left out of the team ... Mahesh Bhupathi decided to opt out of this tie ... This will give chance to AITA to test new pairing of Paes/Bopanna before Olympics ... For Singles Yuki Bhambri and Sanam Singh r added in the team ... Vishnu Vardhan is named reserved player.
Surprised to see Sanam named as second singles player ahead of Vishnu and Karan ... Vishnu was decent in our last tie against Japan and Karan having very good record against Istomin ... AITA must go with current form of Sanam but frankly he still need to prove himself in foreign condition in the futures ... Vishnu was better choice in the team despite his recent poor form.
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At $35K+H Kyoto Challenger, Japan
[R1] (Q) Purav Raja (IND,UNR) l (1) Go Soeda (JPN,81) 46 46
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,280) bt (5) Danai Udomchoke (THA,167) 36 64 62
[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,280) vs (5) Tatsuma Ito (JPN,105)
Doubles
[R1] Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) 63 75
[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (WC) Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 26 67(6)
[R1] (LL) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) bt (Q) Takuto Niki (JPN)/ Bumpei Sato (JPN) 62 62
[QF] (LL) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) vs (3) Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR)
[QF] Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (1) John Paul Fruttero (USA)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA)
Danai take early break to lead 2-1 ... Yuki had couple of break points which he failed to convert but Dania again broke Yuki in 9th game to won the first set ... In the second set both players hold their service games comfortably before Yuki needed to save a break point in 6th game ... Yuki again saved a break point in 8th game before holding his serve ... First time in this set Yuki had a break point opportunity in 9th game and he converted taking this crucial break ... While serving for the set Yuki needed to save break point before holding his serve ... With that he won the second set in 37 minutes ... In the third set both players holding their service games without much problem ... Yuki broke Danai's serve in 5th game when Danai double faulted on break point ... Yuki take early lead and then made easy crucial hold in 6th game @15 ... Danai struggled with his service and made double fault at 15-30 to gave Yuki 2 break points in 7th game ... Yuki converted that and take double break lead ... Yuki hold comfortably @0 to completed memorable comeback victory over Danai.
I think saving those break points in his last 3 service games in the second set gave huge confidence to Yuki ... In the third set he didn't face a single break point and converted 2 break points from 4 on Danai's serve.
Good fighting performance by Purav against top-100 Go Soeda.
In the doubles, Vishnu's struggle completed on Kyoto slow court as he lost in doubles first round with Divij ... They had a 2 set points in 10th game of the second set on Japanese player's serve.
In the second match Yuki and Ti Chen won the first set with two breaks ... In the second set Yuki and Ti Chen up with a single break as they broke opponent's serve in 5th game ... ... They again broke Japanese in 7th game and then Ti Chen hold comfortably to complete one-sided victory ... Next they r facing 3rd seed pair.
Purav and Malek won the first set breaking Aussies in 7th and 9th games ... In the second set both pairs traded early break then in 12th game Purav and Malek had 4 match points at 0-40 and they converted 4th match point to complete the victory in 69 minutes ... In the quarters they r facing top-seed pair.
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At $10K+H India F3 Futures 2012, Bhimavaram
Singles Second Round
(1) Patrick ROSENHOLM (SWE,426) bt (WC) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1485) 62 62
(8) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,554) bt Sam BARRY (IRL,731) 63 36 61
(3) Karan RASTOGI (IND,480) bt (Q) Jordi MUNOZ-ABREU (ESP,1710) 62 4-0 Retd
Saketh MYNENI (IND,689) bt (5) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN,518) 61 60
Sanam SINGH (IND,776) bt (6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,533) 61 64
James FEAVER (GBR,770) bt Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,784) 63 63
(7) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,540) bt Richard GABB (GBR,902) 76(2) 26 63
Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB,670) bt (Q) Matthieu VIERIN (ITA,1475) 62 63
Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Rupesh ROY (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 57 63 10-6
(3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 62 62
(4) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Jordi MUNOZ-ABREU (ESP)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) Walkover
(2) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) 62 64
Saketh scored very dominating win over 5th seed Onozawa losing only 2 games ... Sanam also continued with this good form beating 6th seed Takeuchi comfortably ... Jeevan and Ranjeet also moved to quarters winning their matches in 3 sets ... Karan joined them when his Spanish opponent retired after 6-2 4-0 down ... In quarters Karan against Saketh match will be worth to watch.
At Davis Cup 2012 - Asia/ Oceania Group I, Uzbekistan
Indian Davis Cup Team
Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna, Yuki BHambri, Sanam Singh
Non-playing Captain - Shiv-Prakash Misra
Coach: Nandan Bal
Reserved player - Vishnu Vardhan
AITA announced Indian Davis Cup team for upcoming tie against Uzbekistan ... Somdev Devvarman is injured (mostly operation on his shoulder injury) so left out of the team ... Mahesh Bhupathi decided to opt out of this tie ... This will give chance to AITA to test new pairing of Paes/Bopanna before Olympics ... For Singles Yuki Bhambri and Sanam Singh r added in the team ... Vishnu Vardhan is named reserved player.
Surprised to see Sanam named as second singles player ahead of Vishnu and Karan ... Vishnu was decent in our last tie against Japan and Karan having very good record against Istomin ... AITA must go with current form of Sanam but frankly he still need to prove himself in foreign condition in the futures ... Vishnu was better choice in the team despite his recent poor form.
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At $35K+H Kyoto Challenger, Japan
[R1] (Q) Purav Raja (IND,UNR) l (1) Go Soeda (JPN,81) 46 46
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,280) bt (5) Danai Udomchoke (THA,167) 36 64 62
[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,280) vs (5) Tatsuma Ito (JPN,105)
Doubles
[R1] Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) 63 75
[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (WC) Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 26 67(6)
[R1] (LL) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) bt (Q) Takuto Niki (JPN)/ Bumpei Sato (JPN) 62 62
[QF] (LL) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) vs (3) Harri Heliovaara (FIN)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR)
[QF] Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (1) John Paul Fruttero (USA)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA)
Danai take early break to lead 2-1 ... Yuki had couple of break points which he failed to convert but Dania again broke Yuki in 9th game to won the first set ... In the second set both players hold their service games comfortably before Yuki needed to save a break point in 6th game ... Yuki again saved a break point in 8th game before holding his serve ... First time in this set Yuki had a break point opportunity in 9th game and he converted taking this crucial break ... While serving for the set Yuki needed to save break point before holding his serve ... With that he won the second set in 37 minutes ... In the third set both players holding their service games without much problem ... Yuki broke Danai's serve in 5th game when Danai double faulted on break point ... Yuki take early lead and then made easy crucial hold in 6th game @15 ... Danai struggled with his service and made double fault at 15-30 to gave Yuki 2 break points in 7th game ... Yuki converted that and take double break lead ... Yuki hold comfortably @0 to completed memorable comeback victory over Danai.
I think saving those break points in his last 3 service games in the second set gave huge confidence to Yuki ... In the third set he didn't face a single break point and converted 2 break points from 4 on Danai's serve.
Good fighting performance by Purav against top-100 Go Soeda.
In the doubles, Vishnu's struggle completed on Kyoto slow court as he lost in doubles first round with Divij ... They had a 2 set points in 10th game of the second set on Japanese player's serve.
In the second match Yuki and Ti Chen won the first set with two breaks ... In the second set Yuki and Ti Chen up with a single break as they broke opponent's serve in 5th game ... ... They again broke Japanese in 7th game and then Ti Chen hold comfortably to complete one-sided victory ... Next they r facing 3rd seed pair.
Purav and Malek won the first set breaking Aussies in 7th and 9th games ... In the second set both pairs traded early break then in 12th game Purav and Malek had 4 match points at 0-40 and they converted 4th match point to complete the victory in 69 minutes ... In the quarters they r facing top-seed pair.
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At $10K+H India F3 Futures 2012, Bhimavaram
Singles Second Round
(1) Patrick ROSENHOLM (SWE,426) bt (WC) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1485) 62 62
(8) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,554) bt Sam BARRY (IRL,731) 63 36 61
(3) Karan RASTOGI (IND,480) bt (Q) Jordi MUNOZ-ABREU (ESP,1710) 62 4-0 Retd
Saketh MYNENI (IND,689) bt (5) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN,518) 61 60
Sanam SINGH (IND,776) bt (6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,533) 61 64
James FEAVER (GBR,770) bt Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,784) 63 63
(7) Ranjit VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,540) bt Richard GABB (GBR,902) 76(2) 26 63
Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB,670) bt (Q) Matthieu VIERIN (ITA,1475) 62 63
Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Rupesh ROY (IND)/ Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 57 63 10-6
(3) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND)/ Lakshit SOOD (IND) 62 62
(4) Vijayant MALIK (IND)/ Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Jordi MUNOZ-ABREU (ESP)/ Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN) Walkover
(2) Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ Akash WAGH (IND) 62 64
Saketh scored very dominating win over 5th seed Onozawa losing only 2 games ... Sanam also continued with this good form beating 6th seed Takeuchi comfortably ... Jeevan and Ranjeet also moved to quarters winning their matches in 3 sets ... Karan joined them when his Spanish opponent retired after 6-2 4-0 down ... In quarters Karan against Saketh match will be worth to watch.
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