Friday, September 21, 2012

Tennis News
At $75K Izmir Cup, Turkey

[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,262) l (2) Michael Russell (USA,106) 67(4) 16

Doubles
[QF] Drew Courtney (USA)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (ALT) Roman Borvanov (MDA)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) 64 76(4)
[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l David Rice (GBR)/ Sean Thornley (GBR) 06 63 8-10

[SF] Drew Courtney (USA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Brydan Klein (AUS)/ Dane Propoggia (AUS)

In the first set Vishnu matched with experienced Russell in all departments but in tie-break Russell take mini-break on 1st point and that was enough for him to win the first set ... In the second set Russell dominated the proceeding after breaking Vishnu in 2nd game to take 3-0 lead and then double his lead breaking Vishnu in 6th game to win the match.

In doubles Purav and Drew enter into the semis with straight sets victory ... After winning the first set with a single break our pair was leading with early break in the second but lost their serve in 8th game to bring the set back on serve ... Again Purav and Drew take break in 11th game but again failed to hold while serving for the match ... They played better tie-break for completing the victory ... Next they r facing 3rd seed Aussie pair in the semis.

Vishnu and Divij started disastrously after losing the first set without winning a single game ... They fought back after winning the second set with early break ... In match tie-break British pair take early lead which our pair failed to overcome ... Tiredness after the Davis cup matches were shown in this tournament.

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At $10K Vietnam F5 Futures, Binh Duong

[QF] (6) Vijayant Malik (IND,477) bt (1) Jose Statham (NZL,325) 46 64 63

[SF] (6) Vijayant Malik (IND,477) vs (3) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE,399)

Doubles
[QF] Yang Lu (CHN)/ Ajai Selvaraj (IND) l (1) Weerapat Doakmaiklee (THA)/ Jose Statham (NZL) 36 26

Vijayant scored superb upset win against top-seed and New Zeland's Davis cup player Jose Statham ... After losing the first set Vijayant played excellent and take advantage of Jose's tiredness from last week's Davis cup matches.
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At $10K USA F25 Futures, Costa Mesa

[R2] (SE) Prakash Amritraj (IND,UNR) l (Q) Marcos Giron (USA,1739) 36 46

Prakash lost in the second round against in-form American qualifier Marcos Giron in the straight sets.

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