Thursday, February 07, 2013

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

[R2] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND,395) l (4) Jurgen Melzer (AUT,29) 61 67(5) 26

Doubles
[QF] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Flavio Cipolla (ITA) bt Benjamin Becker (GER)/ Lukas Rosol (CZE) 62 62

[SF] (PR) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Flavio Cipolla (ITA) vs (2) Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Filip Polasek (SVK)

Somi started confidently against top-30 Jurgen Melzer after breaking him in 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... Somi take another break of serve in 6th game to win this set in 25 minutes ... In the second set Somi had few break point chances but he failed to convert those ... In tie-break Melzer take early mini-break to lead 0-2 ... Somi take back mini-break in 5th point for 2-3 ... Somi again take mini-break in 8th point to lead 5-3 ... But Melzer came back strongly winning both points on Somi's serve from 4-5 and then served to win this tie-break ... In the third set Melzer take early break to lead 2-1 and then doubled his lead to win this final set comfortably ... In the end missing break point chances in the second set and failed to win important couple of points while serving after mini-break up at 5-4 in tie-break proved crucial ... Missed opportunity of beating Melzer.

Somi and Cipolla scored very dominating win in doubles quarters ... Next in the semis they r facing 2nd seeds Julian Knowle and Filip Polasek.

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