Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Tennis News
At €468 PBZ Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia

[R1] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,395) bt (Q) Michael Berrer (GER,125) 06 76(3) 4-1 Retd.

[R2] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,395) vs (4) Jurgen Melzer (AUT,29)

Somi had slow start and struggled with hard hitting from Berrer ... Somi lost the first in 23 minutes without winning a single game ... In the second set Somi was early break down in 3rd game, 1-2 ... But after that produced excellent comeback, he broke Berrer in 4th game to make it 2-all ... Saved a break point in 11th game ... In tie-break Berrer was up with mini-break and had 2 match points on his serve at 6-4 ... Somi won next four points to win this set ... In the final set Somi broke Berrer in 3rd game to take 2-1 lead ... Somi again broke him in 5th game to take 4-1 lead and at that time Berrer conceded the match.

This is a terrific comeback win by Somi against hard hitter tricky opponent, Berrer ... Next he is facing similar style hard hitter but also huge server Melzer.

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