Saturday, September 22, 2012

Tennis News
At $850K Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[Q1] (5) Sanam Singh (IND,370) bye
[Q2] (5) Sanam Singh (IND, 370) bt Yew-Ming SI (MAS,UNR)

[Q3] (5) Sanam Singh (IND, 370) vs (2) Michael Yani (USA,241)

Good draw for Sanam and take full advantage of it ... Now in the final qualifying he is facing experienced American Yani.
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At $551K Thailand Open, Bangkok

[Q1] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,536) bt (WC) Chayanon Kaewsuto (THA,UNR) 64 64

[Q2] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,536) vs (4) Hiroki Moriya (JPN,204)

Expected straight sets victory over Thai wild-card player for Vijay Sundar ... Though he needed to fightback after 0-3 down in the second set ... Next he is facing top-200 type Japanese Davis cup player Moriya.
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At $75K Izmir Cup, Turkey

[SF] Drew Courtney (USA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (3) Brydan Klein (AUS)/ Dane Propoggia (AUS) 67(5) 46

Purav and Drew were up with early break but they failed to keep pressure ... They missed numerous break points and Australians take full advantage of it ... After winning the first set in tie-break they won the second with a single break.
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At $10K Vietnam F5 Futures, Binh Duong

Singles Final
[QF] (6) Vijayant Malik (IND,477) bt Junn Mitsusashi (JPN,658) 75 62

[SF] (6) Vijayant Malik (IND,477) bt (3) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE,399) 63 36 63

Vijayant ended his superb week with winning title in this Vietnamese futures ... With this 22 yrs old Vijayant Malik wins his first futures title in his fifth futures final ... Before this Vijayant had made 4 futures finals from 2011, 3 in India and 1 in Nigeria.

In the final he was 0-3 down but after that he played excellently ... When Mitsusashi was serving for the set at 3-5 Vijayant broke him in 9th game and then again broke him in 11th game before holding his serve to win the set ... Vijayant didn't give chance Mitsusashi in the second set ... He broke Mitsusashi in 1st and 3rd games to lead 4-0 ... After that Mitsusashi tried fight back and broke Vijayant in 6th game to make it 2-4 but again Vijayant broke Mitsusashi in 7th game ... Then Vijayant hold his serve for the title win ... Before that Vijayant defeated higher ranked Taipei player in the semis.

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