Saturday, April 20, 2013

Tennis News
At $100K Sarasota Open, USA

[QF] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) bt Mischa Zverev (GER,152) 64 62

[SF] (ALT) Somdev Devvarman (IND,205) vs (Q) Alex Kuznetsov (USA,271)

Doubles
[SF] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) bt (3) Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Simon Stadler (GER) 64 61

[F] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Ilija Bozoljac (SRB) vs Steve Johnson (USA)/ Bradley Klahn (USA)

In the first set Buji was leading 5-2 when Mischa take medical break which broke Buji's rhythm ... Buji lost his serve in 8th game but hold his serve in 10th game to won this set ... Somi gave more dominating performance in the second and broke Mischa twice to won it comfortably ... Next he is facing qualifier Alex Kuznetsov, who is also looking in good form.

Somi and Bozo scored comfortable win over 3rd seed Monroe and Stadler ... In the final they r facing unseeded American pair of Johnson and Klahn.

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At Asia/Oceania final qualifying for World Junior Tennis 14/u- Girls, Kuching, Malaysia

For 3rd Place
(3) India bt (5) Thailand 2-1

Pranjala YADLAPALLI bt Priyachanok SUKKANHA 62 60
Mihika YADAV bt Yinglak JITTAKOAT 62 62
Sruta Kirti GUNUGANTI/ Mihika YADAV l Yinglak JITTAKOAT/ Pichayatida JANDAENG 26 06

Well deserving third place finish for our girls with easy singles win by Pranjala and Mihika ... This was decent efforts by our girls, who performed as per their seeding ... Until August these girls having good chance to make some improvement in their games which will help them on the clay.
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At $15K USA F10 Futures, Little Rock

[R2] (6) Saketh Myneni (IND,434) l (Q) Jean-Yves Aubone (USA,1354) 16 Retd.

An injury struck at bad time when Saketh was showing some consistency in his results.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Chennai

Singles Final
(1) Ankita RAINA (IND) bt (6) Natasha PALHA (IND) 63 61

Deserving title win for Ankita ... This was her 3rd final in $10K tournament in a row so at last she managed to lift the title.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Divij & Purav infact lost 10-12 in the match tie break & not 1-10 against 2nd seeds James Cerretani & Adil Shamasdin which indeed was a big effort from our boys

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