Sunday, February 03, 2013

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

India l South Korea 1-4

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

Sunday - 3rd February 2013
[R4] Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,511) l Suk-Young Jeong (KOR,321) 46 46 26
[R5] Vijayant Malik (IND,537) l Ji Sung Nam (KOR,484) 26 46

Today Indian captain decided to stick with Ranjeet in the reverse singles ... Ranjeet saved early break points but Jeong take crucial break in 9th game ... Then hold his serve to won the first set ... In the second set Jeong take early break to lead 3-1 but Ranjeet broke him in 6th game to make it 3-all ... This time also Jeong take crucial break on Ranjeet's serve in 9th game and then hold his serve to won the second set ... In the final set Jeong take early break and then again broke Ranjeet in 7th game to win this set with double break ... In the final dead rubber Vijayant failed to produce any fighting performance against his Korean opponent.

With this India lost their Davis cup tie against South Korea and need to wait for 2 more years for any hope for World group ties ... Before that our tennis body and players need to resolve issue so we can play regular team in our next ties to avoid relegation in Group II.

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