Friday, December 07, 2012

Tennis News
At $10K India F15 Futures, Davanagere

[SF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,327) bt Colin VAN BEEM (NED,1069) 76(3) 63
[SF] (2) Sanam SINGH (IND,358) bt (Q) Torsten WIETOSKA (GER,1493) 60 76(1)

Doubles Final
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (1) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 67(4) 64 10-

Sriram Balaji and Sanam entered into the final proving top 2 seeding ... Both faced tough resistant in their respective matches ... In the first semi-final Balaji broke Beem in 8th game to lead 5-3 in the first set but he failed to hold his serve while serving for the set in next game ... Balaji had a set point on Beem's serve in 12th game which he failed to convert ... In tie-break Balaji managed to win crucial mini-break for winning the first set ... In the second set Balaji broke Beem in 5th game to lead 3-2 then he take another break in 9th game to win this match in 2 hours.

In the second semi-final Sanam started strongly and won the first set without losing a single game ... But qualifier Wietoska fought back in the second ... He broke Sanam's serve in 7th game to lead 4-3 but Sanam broke back immediately to make it 4-all ... Sanam dominated tie-break and completed win in 1 hour and 44 minutes.

Excellent comeback by Jeevan and Balaji in the doubles final ... After losing the first set in tie-break they won the second set with a single break ... They dominated super tie-break losing only a single point against top-seed.

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