Saturday, February 02, 2013

Tennis News
At Davis Cup - Group I Asia/Oceania - 1st Round, New Delhi, India

India vs South Korea 1-2

Friday - 1st February 2013
[R1] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,511) l Min Hyeok Cho (KOR,UNR) 16 06 16)
[R2] Vijayant Malik (IND,537) l Suk-Young Jeong (KOR,321) 46 57 0-3 Retd.

Saturday - 2nd February 2013
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Young-Kyu Lim (KOR)/ Ji Sung Nam (KOR) 64 76(5) 62

After poor first day outing Leander lift young Indian players spirit and defeated Korean pair in straight sets with another debutante Purav Raja ... Lee and Purav were up with early break of Lim's serve but Korean broke back in 7th game breaking Purav's serve, 3-4 ... Indian pair again broke Lim again in 10th game to win the first set ... Koreans fought hard in the second ... They broke Purav in 5th game but Indians fought back breaking Nam's serve in 8th game ... Korean broke Lee's serve in 11th game but again Indian broke Nam's serve to take set in tie-break ... In the tie-break our pair fought back from 0-3 where Lee used his experience to win this set ... After losing the second set Korean failed to raise game so Indians won the third set with double break ... Tomorrow reverse singles will be played.

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