Friday, November 02, 2012

Tennis News
At €2.95M BNP Paribas Masters, Paris, France

[QF] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (4) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 67(5) 63 10-4

Mahesh and Rohan raised their game when it was matter most to win this match and qualifying for the ATP Tour Finals ... They needed victory against Poles for qualifying and after losing the first set in tie-break they regrouped to win the second ... In match tie-break they were in control form the start.
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At $75K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[QF] (WC) Somdev DevVarman (IND,733) l (8) Denis Kudla (USA,164) 26 06

After excellent performance in last 2 matches where Somi needed comeback to win it ... Somi produced really flat performance to lose against Kudla ... May be Somi was tired after first 2 rounds matches.
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At $15K India F14 Futures, Pune

[SF] (4) Saketh MYNENI (IND,374) bt (1) Christopher RUNGKAT (INA,299) 63 63
[SF] Prakash AMRITRAJ (IND,806) bt (8) Nicolas REISSIG (AUT,504) 64 64

Doubles Final
[SF] (1) Saket Myneni (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (2) N Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Arun Prakash Rajagopalan (IND) 75 67(3) 10-5

Very solid wins by Saketh and Prakash against their higher ranked opponents ... Saketh defeated top-seed young Indonesian convincingly ... Prakash win was expected despite his lower ranked considering his huge experience ... He will be favorite for the final.

Saketh and Purav won back to back title again beating Balaji and Arun Prakash in the final ... This time match was very close one as both sets stretched to fullest but Purav and Saketh dominated match tie-break for the victory.

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