Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Tennis News
At $75K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,733) bt (4) Mischa Zverev (GER,137) 46 75 64

[R2] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,733) vs (Q) Taro Daniel (JPN,337)

In the first set Zverev take first break in 5th game but Somi broke back in the next game to make it 3-all ... Zverev take crucial break in 9th game and then hold his serve to win the first set ... In the second set Somi broke Zverev in 4th game to lead 3-1 but then failed to hold his serve in next game ... Again Somi broke Zverev in 8th game to lead 5-3 but failed to hold his own service game while serving for the set ... Somi won the set when he take crucial break on Zverev serve in 12th game ... In the final set Zverev take early break breaking Somi in 3rd game ... Suddenly Somi was making too many unforced errors ... Zverev take advantage of it and again broke Somi in 5th game to lead 1-4 ... Somi raised his game from this game and comeback strongly ... Somi won next 5 games and in that broke Zverev's serve 3 times; 6th game, 8th game and 10th game ... His best win after his shoulder operation.

Next he is facing Japanese qualifier, who defeated Prakash three weeks ago in Tiburon Challenger.

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At $15K India F14 Futures, Pune

[R2] (1) Christopher RUNGKAT (INA,299) bt (WC) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND,1181) 61 61
[R2] (7) Mate PAVIC (CRO,467) bt Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,1188) 64 75
[R2] (4) Saketh MYNENI (IND,374) bt James MARSALEK (GBR,568) 63 62
[R2] (5) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND,398) bt (WC) Chandril SOOD (IND,1174) 63 62
[R2] Prakash AMRITRAJ (IND,806) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1077) 75 60
[R2] (3) Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE,368) bt (WC) Arjun KADHE (IND,1408) 76(3) 36 57
[R2] (8) Nicolas REISSIG (AUT,504) bt Chieh-Fu WANG (TPE,935) 63 63
[R2] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,328) bt (Q) Ting Yu CHUANG (TPE,UNR) 61 76(2)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Saket Myneni (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) 63 64
[QF] (3) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) 62 75
[QF] (4) Mate Pavic (CRO)/ Nicolas Reissig (AUT) bt Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) 62 64
[QF] (2) N Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Arun Prakash Rajagopalan (IND) bt Sidharth Rawat (IND)/ Rakshay Thakkar (IND) 63 62

Overall expected results in the singles and the doubles but really impressive fight by young Arjun against 3rd seed Huang ... Huang won this match in the decider on his experience.

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