Friday, July 27, 2012

Tennis News
At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[QF] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,211) l (2) Karol Beck (SVK,126) 26 67(3)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Karol Beck (SVK)/ Kamil Capkovic (SVK)

After losing the first set easily Yuki fought well against Beck ... Beck broke him in 5th game but Yuki broke back in the next game to make it 3-all ... Yuki played some beautiful shots and was matching Beck after that ... In tie-break Yuki made few errors from backhands but match was stopped when he was 3 match points down due to rain ... Beck won the first point after resumption to complete the victory.
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At $10K India F11 Futures, Chennai

[SF] (4) Suk Young JEONG (KOR,688) bt (7) Hyun-Woo NAM (KOR,771) 64 64
[SF] (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND,507) bt (8) Karunduay SINGH (IND,823) 61 63

Doubles Final
(1) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) bt (2) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 64 26 10-7

Comfortable win for Saketh against Karunuday ... In the final he is facing last week's winner 4th seed Korean Suk.

In doubles final Saketh and Arun Prakash lost against top-seed Thai pair in match tie-break.

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,...