Friday, June 07, 2013

Tennis News
At $100K+H Caltanissetta Challenger, Italy (red clay)

[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) bt Federico Delbonis (ARG,125) 64 60

[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,188) vs Dusan Lajovic (SRB,155)

In the first set both players started confidently and comfortably holding their service games ... At 4-all Buji broke Delbonis at love and then while serving for the set Buji saved a break point before converting his 3rd set point ... In the second set Somi didn't give any chance to Delbonis and he served a second set bagel to Delbonis and moves into the Semifinals ... Next he is facing his Serbian doubles partner Dusan Lajovic.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Karshi, Uzbekistan

[SF] (Q) Ankita Raina (IND,455) bt (6) Veronika Kapshay (UKR,301) 06 76(1) 64

[F] (Q) Ankita Raina (IND,455) vs Sabina Sharipova (UZB,363)

Ankita continues with her excellent performance ... Today after losing the first set against top-300 Ukrainian without winning a single game she showed tremendous courage for extraordinary comeback ... She fought hard to win the second set and then kept fighting before winning the final set ... Superb performance by Ankita to reach in the final ... In the final she is facing talented local girl Sabina Sharipova.
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At $10K India F7 Futures, Chennai

Singles Semi Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (7) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) 61 61
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) 63 63

Doubles Semi Finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Zach ITZSTEIN (AUS)/ Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 63 62
(2) Keith-Patrick CROWLEY (RSA)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt Fariz MOHAMMED (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 63 64

Prajnesh was playing his second match of the day after long quarter-final match and Balaji take advantage of it to won it comfortably ... Jeevan also take revenge of his previous week's loss against Karunuday.
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At $10K Guam F1 Futures, Tumon

[QF] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND,302) bt (6) Gengo KIKUCHI (JPN,755) 62 63

[SF] (1) Saketh MYNENI (IND,302) vs (4) Takuto NIKI (JPN,635)

Another comfortable win for Saketh .. He is proving too stong for his Japanese opponents in this futures.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[QF] (3) Kyra SHROFF (IND,720) l Lisa-Maria MOSER (AUT,1041) 16 26

Disappointing loss of Kyra.

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