Tennis News
At $35K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan
[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,292) l Gerald Melzer (AUT,311) 46 67(1)
[R2] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) bt Michal Konecny (CZE,287) 64 76(5)
Doubles
[QF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Victor Baluda (RUS)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 63 63
[SF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Riccardo Bellotti (ITA)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT)
Sriram Balaji scored his biggest victory of career beating top 300 European player on the clay ... In the first set Balaji take important break on Konecny's serve in 7th game and that break was enough to win the first set ... In the second set until 10 games both players hold their serves ... Balaji take break in 11th game but failed to hold his serve while serving for the match ... Balaji kept his composure in tie-break to complete very important win and enter into his first challenger quarter final.
Vishnu had tricky match against younger brother of Jurgen Melzer ... Gerald Melzer was holding his serve comfortably without losing much points and was putting pressure on Vishnu's serve ... Gerald broke Vishnu in 7th game to win the first set ... In the second set both players hold their respective service games to take this set in tie-break ... Gerald didn't give much chance to Vishnu and won tie-break easily.
Another comfortable straight sets victory for our top-seed pair ... They didn't face a single break point on their serves and converted 3 from 6 break point opportunities ... Again Vishnu is facing Melzer in the doubles semis with Divij.
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At $15K Great Britain F13 Futures,
[R1] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,464) l (Q) Tom Burn (GBR,808) 16 36
Very uncharacteristic one-sided defeat to Sommy against British qualifier ... He need to play more matches to be match-fit after his 10 months break after shoulder surgery.
At $35K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan
[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,292) l Gerald Melzer (AUT,311) 46 67(1)
[R2] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,472) bt Michal Konecny (CZE,287) 64 76(5)
Doubles
[QF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Victor Baluda (RUS)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 63 63
[SF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Riccardo Bellotti (ITA)/ Gerald Melzer (AUT)
Sriram Balaji scored his biggest victory of career beating top 300 European player on the clay ... In the first set Balaji take important break on Konecny's serve in 7th game and that break was enough to win the first set ... In the second set until 10 games both players hold their serves ... Balaji take break in 11th game but failed to hold his serve while serving for the match ... Balaji kept his composure in tie-break to complete very important win and enter into his first challenger quarter final.
Vishnu had tricky match against younger brother of Jurgen Melzer ... Gerald Melzer was holding his serve comfortably without losing much points and was putting pressure on Vishnu's serve ... Gerald broke Vishnu in 7th game to win the first set ... In the second set both players hold their respective service games to take this set in tie-break ... Gerald didn't give much chance to Vishnu and won tie-break easily.
Another comfortable straight sets victory for our top-seed pair ... They didn't face a single break point on their serves and converted 3 from 6 break point opportunities ... Again Vishnu is facing Melzer in the doubles semis with Divij.
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At $15K Great Britain F13 Futures,
[R1] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,464) l (Q) Tom Burn (GBR,808) 16 36
Very uncharacteristic one-sided defeat to Sommy against British qualifier ... He need to play more matches to be match-fit after his 10 months break after shoulder surgery.
