Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Tennis News

At US Open 2013, New York, USA

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,114) bt Lukas Lacko (SVK,84) 46 61 62 46 64

[R2] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,114) vs (20) Andreas Seppi (ITA,23)

In the first set Buji was struggle with his serve ... Buji lost his serve in 3rd game but broke back in 4th game to made it 2-all ... Lacko take advantage of Buji's poor serving and take another break for winning the first set ... From the second set Buji's serving showed improvement and from 1-all Buji won next 5 games in that he broke Lacko twice to won it ... In the third set Buji was showing improvement in shot making and was finding his range ... Here also he won 4 games in a row after 2-all to won it ... At this time match's momentum was with Buji but match stopped due to lightening and then rain which gave chance to Lacko ... And Lacko came back recharge when match resumed after almost four and half hours delay ... Both players hold their respective service games till ninth game ... Buji had poor 10th service game which Lacko broke and won this set ... Buji had better serve percentage in the fifth which helped him to hold his service game and won the match with a single break ... Next he is facing in-form Italian Andreas Seppi.
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At $35K+H Como Challenger, Italy

[R1] Alessandro Motti (ITA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (ALT) Marco Crugnola (ITA)/ Stefano Ianni (ITA) 75 46 4-10

Surprised by the loss of Purav and his partner against this local alternate pair in match tie-break.
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At $15K Chinese Taipei F2 Futures, Taipei City

[R1] (5) Yuki Bhambri(IND,593) bt (Q) Jonathan Chang (USA,UNR) 61 62

[R2] (5) Yuki Bhambri(IND,593) vs Dayne Kelly (AUS,897)

Expected comfortable win for Yuki against American qualifier ... Next he is facing Aussie opponent.
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At $15K Gabon F2 Futures, Libreville

[R2] (5) Vishnu Vardhan(IND,688) bt (Q) Eric Vehovec (CAN,UNR) 61 62
[R2] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan(IND,375) bt Alexis Klegou (BEN,1382) 67(3) 61 76(6)

[QF] (5) Vishnu Vardhan(IND,688) vs (4) Sam Barry (IRL,543)
[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan(IND,375) vs Matias Castro (ARG,1248)

Doubles
[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Kokou Missodey (TOG)/ Daouda Ndiaye (SEN) 76(1) 62

[SF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Bar Tzuf Botzer (ISR)/ Rudy Coco (FRA)

Jeevan was streched to fullest by his 1300+ ranked opponent ... He was lucky to win long tie-break in the final set ... In the quarter he is facing another lower ranked Argentine opponent, who scored upset win over 8th seed in the second round ... Other hand Vishnu scored comfortable win over Canadian qualifier ... Next he is facing Irish 4th seed ... Our pair in the doubles semis also.
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At $10K Egypt F22 Futures , Sharm El Sheikh
[R1] (4)Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,546) bt Lorenzo CARERA (ITA,1953) 60 60
[R1] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,411) bt Marc ABDELNOUR (SYR,797) 63 75

[R2] (4) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) vs Nizar Belmati (MAR,2029)
[R2] (2) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,402) vs (Q) Mohmed Adnaoui(MAR,UNR)

Walk in the park for Ranjeet in his first round match ... Bala had little difficulty in his match ... After winning the first set he was 2-4 down in the second before winning 5 games from next 6 games to won this match ... In next round also both r facing easy opponents.
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At $10K Turkey F34 Futures, Antalya-Belconti,

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan(IND,709) l (4) Richard GABB (GBR,552) 61 46 06

Ramkumar failed to finish match in two sets and Gabb take advantage of it with strong bagel in the third set.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, New Delhi, India

Singles Second Round
(1) Ankita Raina (IND) bt (Q) Riya Bhatia (IND) 61 60
Xi-Yao Wang (CHN) bt Hua-Chen Lee (TPE) 64 57 64
Bhuvana Kalva (IND) bt (Q) Shivika Burman (IND) 61 64
Natasha Palha (IND) bt Eetee Maheta (IND) 62 60
Mahitha Dadi Reddy (IND) bt (5) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) 61 75
Matilda Hamlin (SWE) bt (4) Nidhi Chilumula (IND) 64 46 63
(6) Akari Inoue (JPN) bt (Q) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) 46 63 63
(2) Rishika Sunkara (IND) bt Sharon Sanchana Paul (IND) 62 63

Good upset wins by Mahitha and fighting performance by Pranjala in her loss.

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