Friday, May 03, 2013

Tennis News
At €468K Portugal Open, Oeiras

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andy Ram (ISR) l (1) Aisam Qureshi (PAK)/ Jean Julien Roger(NED) 64 36 4-10

This time Aisam-Jean Julien Roger managed to beat Rohan with his partner Andy Ram ... Rohan-Andy started well after winning the first set but after that they failed to keep momentum and lost match in one-sided match tie-break.
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At $100K+H Johannesburg Challenger, South Africa,

Doubles Final
Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) bt (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) 76(1) 76(1)

Divij-Purav saved early break point and after that both pairs hold their respective service games to take the set in tie-break ... Ka$h and Rajeev dominated tie-break, they won first 6 points in a row and then converted 1st set point .. In the second set Divij-Purav saved 2 break points in 5th game ... They again faced 2 break points in 11th game and this time also they saved it ... Divij-Purav had a set point (their first break point on Ka$h-Rajeeev's serve) in 12th game but they failed to convert it ... Again the first set score repeated in tie-break ... Ka$h- Rajeev won this again losing only a single point.

Congrats to Ka$h-Rajeev for their title win and again Divij-Purav showed consistency in their performance ... Hoping our this pair get chance to play in Wimbledon qualifying.

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At $15K India F4 Futures, Chandigarh

Singles Semi Finals
(7) Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt (8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 63 16 76(3)
(5) Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (4) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 62 Retd.

Doubles Final
(2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (1) Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 63 64

Saketh won the first set and after that Vishnu retired from the match ... After that Vishnu played the doubles final with Arun-Prakash but they lost in the straight sets against 2nd seeded Sriram balaji and Ranjeet ... In the singles other semi-final Vijayant scored fighting win over Ranjeet where final set went in tie-break.

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