Friday, May 24, 2013

Tennis News
At French Open 2013, Paris (red clay)

[Q3] Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) bt (8) Wayne Odesnik (USA,117) 63 64

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) vs (Q) Daniel Munoz-De La Nava (ESP,145)

Terrific performance by Somdev to qualify for French Open with win over clay court specialist American Wayne Odesnik ... In the first set Buji broke Wayne in 5th game and at 4-3, 0-15, there was rain break ... But after that Buji again broke Wayne in 9th game for winning the first set comfortably ... Buji continued to dominate the second set and broke Wayne in 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... Buji lost his concentration in next few games and Wayne take advantage to broke back in 5th game to make it 3-all ... Buji again broke Wayne in 9th game to lead 5-3 but Wayne kept fighting and broke Buji in 9th game when he was serving for the match, 5-4 ... In 10th game Buji created pressure on Wayne's serve and broke his serve for this memorable win in 91 minutes ... In the first round Buji is playing another qualifier Spanish Daniel Munoz-De La Nava and winner between them face Roger Federer in the second round.
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At $690K Brussels Open (WTA Premier), Belgium (Red Clay)

[QF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) bt Liga Dekmeijere (LAT)/ Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) 62 63

[SF] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) l Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Shahar Peer (ISR) 46 75 7-10

In the quarterfinal Sania and Jie scored comfortable win over Dekmeijere and Kalashnikova losing only 5 games ... But they needed to play their second match of the day after 90 minutes and they lost in the semi-final ... After losing the first set Sania and Jie fought back to won the second but Dabrowski and Peer proved better pair in match tie-break.
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At $10K Thailand F1 Futures, Bangkok

[SF] Karunuday SINGH (IND,900) bt (1) Adam FEENEY (AUS,299) 62 62

[F] Karunuday SINGH (IND,900) vs (4) Benjamin MITCHELL (AUS,373)

Impressive win by Karunuday against top-300 Feeney in one-sided match ... That's also losing only 4 games against very experienced Feeney ... In the final he is facing another Aussie.

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