Tennis News
At $2.7M Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, Spain
[QF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) l Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 57 63 5-10
Mahesh and Nenad was break down in the first set but they broke back at 4-5 ... Next game they were up 40-0 before losing the serve ... With single break Nenad and Mahesh won the second set but in STB Spanish pair proved strong for them.
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At 2012 u-16 Asia/Oceania Junior Davis and Fed Cup Final Qualifying, Bendigo, Australia
Junior Davis Cup - Quarter Final
(3) India l (1) Korea 1-2
R1 - Sahil Deshmukh l Ku Keon Kang 16 06
R2 - Sumit Nagal l Hyeon Chung 26 16
R3 - Sahil Deshmukh/ Fatehdeep Singh bt Hyeon Chung/ Geon Ju Shin 76(4) 57 75
Junior Fed Cup - Quarter Final
(1) India l (3) Australia 1-2
R1 - Snehadevi Reddy l Zoe Hives 16 16
R2 - Rutuja Bhosale bt Naiktha Bains 76(5) 62
R3 - Rutuja Bhosale/ Snehadevi Reddy l Naiktha Bains/ Isabelle Wallace 62 46 36
Korean boys dominated our boys and they won their two singles matches losing only 4 games ... Surprised to see this one-sided scoreline for Sumit ... In doubles dead rubber Sahil and Fatedeep produced herculean effort to gave single win for us from this tie.
In girls section, Australian Zoe Hives gave winning start for their team beating Snehadevi Reddy very comfortably ... Rutuja won her match against Australia's #1 Bains to give us 1-all score ... But in the crucial doubles match our pair lost after winning the first set ... In the final set they were up 3-1 before losing next 5 games.
I m really surprised to see choice of doubles pairing by captain Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram against Aussies ...Sai Jayalakshmy decided to use untested pairing of Rutuja and Snehadevi Reddy for this crucial match against Aussie ... Before that in our group matches she used pairing of Rutuja and Simran Kaur Sethi.
Disappointed to see that our both teams failed to perform as per their seeding and missed chance of qualifying for the final of JDC and JFC.
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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures 2012, Namangan
[SF] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,385) bt (1) Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR,279) 76(5) 26 76(5)
[F](3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,385) vs Ivan Sergeyev (UKR,526)
Huge upset win by Vishnu ... This wasn't expected ... Luv the way he won two tie-breaks to upset top-seed Uladzimir Ignatik in three sets and moreover he saved 3 match points in the third set ... Next he is facing unseeded Ukrainian, who upset 2nd seed Russian.
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At $10K India F5 Futures 2012, Madurai
[QF] (WC) (1) Vijayant Malik (IND,474) bt (6) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,708) 63 76(4)
[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,516) bt (7) Gaetan De Lovinfosse (BEL,830) 46 63 64
[QF] (3) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,503) l (8) Yannick Vandenbulcke (BEL,877) 46 36
[QF] (5) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,657) l (2) Marc Giner (ESP,479) 46 46
Jeevan scored good comeback victory after losing the first set ... In the semis he will face Vijayant but Ranjeet lost in straight sets against Belgian player.
At $2.7M Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, Spain
[QF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) l Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 57 63 5-10
Mahesh and Nenad was break down in the first set but they broke back at 4-5 ... Next game they were up 40-0 before losing the serve ... With single break Nenad and Mahesh won the second set but in STB Spanish pair proved strong for them.
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At 2012 u-16 Asia/Oceania Junior Davis and Fed Cup Final Qualifying, Bendigo, Australia
Junior Davis Cup - Quarter Final
(3) India l (1) Korea 1-2
R1 - Sahil Deshmukh l Ku Keon Kang 16 06
R2 - Sumit Nagal l Hyeon Chung 26 16
R3 - Sahil Deshmukh/ Fatehdeep Singh bt Hyeon Chung/ Geon Ju Shin 76(4) 57 75
Junior Fed Cup - Quarter Final
(1) India l (3) Australia 1-2
R1 - Snehadevi Reddy l Zoe Hives 16 16
R2 - Rutuja Bhosale bt Naiktha Bains 76(5) 62
R3 - Rutuja Bhosale/ Snehadevi Reddy l Naiktha Bains/ Isabelle Wallace 62 46 36
Korean boys dominated our boys and they won their two singles matches losing only 4 games ... Surprised to see this one-sided scoreline for Sumit ... In doubles dead rubber Sahil and Fatedeep produced herculean effort to gave single win for us from this tie.
In girls section, Australian Zoe Hives gave winning start for their team beating Snehadevi Reddy very comfortably ... Rutuja won her match against Australia's #1 Bains to give us 1-all score ... But in the crucial doubles match our pair lost after winning the first set ... In the final set they were up 3-1 before losing next 5 games.
I m really surprised to see choice of doubles pairing by captain Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram against Aussies ...Sai Jayalakshmy decided to use untested pairing of Rutuja and Snehadevi Reddy for this crucial match against Aussie ... Before that in our group matches she used pairing of Rutuja and Simran Kaur Sethi.
Disappointed to see that our both teams failed to perform as per their seeding and missed chance of qualifying for the final of JDC and JFC.
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At $15K Uzbekistan F2 Futures 2012, Namangan
[SF] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,385) bt (1) Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR,279) 76(5) 26 76(5)
[F](3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,385) vs Ivan Sergeyev (UKR,526)
Huge upset win by Vishnu ... This wasn't expected ... Luv the way he won two tie-breaks to upset top-seed Uladzimir Ignatik in three sets and moreover he saved 3 match points in the third set ... Next he is facing unseeded Ukrainian, who upset 2nd seed Russian.
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At $10K India F5 Futures 2012, Madurai
[QF] (WC) (1) Vijayant Malik (IND,474) bt (6) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,708) 63 76(4)
[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,516) bt (7) Gaetan De Lovinfosse (BEL,830) 46 63 64
[QF] (3) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,503) l (8) Yannick Vandenbulcke (BEL,877) 46 36
[QF] (5) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,657) l (2) Marc Giner (ESP,479) 46 46
Jeevan scored good comeback victory after losing the first set ... In the semis he will face Vijayant but Ranjeet lost in straight sets against Belgian player.
