Sunday, September 08, 2013

Tennis News

At US Open 2013, New York, USA


Doubles Final
(4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) bt (2) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 61 63

Leander won his 8th men's doubles grand slam title and 3rd US open men's doubles title ... This was his 2nd grand slam title with Radek after their victory in 2012 Australian open ... He become one of few player who lifted the grand slam title after completing 40 yrs of age and also manage to win grand slam titles in three decades ... With this win Radek-Lee also qualify for year-end ATP World tour Finals 2013.

In the first game Radek saved a break point before holding his serve ... After that Radek and Leander take control of the match ... They broke Soares and Peya in 2nd and 4th games at love ... At 0-5 Soares hold his serve first time in the match, 1-5 ... After that Lee hold his serve comfortably for winning the first set ... Peya was struggling with lower back pain and he struggled with his serve ... Lee and Radek broke Peya in 1st game of the second set ... After that Lee hold his serve for 2-0 lead ... After that Soares saved 3 break points on his serve before holding his serve ... At 1-3 and 30-15 Peya take long medical break ... After break despite struggling with his serve Peya managed to hold his serve for 1st time in the match ... After that both pairs hold their respective serve before Lee-Radek broke Peya in 9th game for completing the victory.

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At $75K Istanbul-2 Challenger, Turkey

[R1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,114) vs Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS,173)

Buji is 2nd seed at Turkey challenger and facing top-175 Russian.
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At $50K ITF Women's Tournament, Sanya, China

[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND,311) l Yue-Yue HU (CHN,464) 75 36 16

Doubles
[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Zi YANG (CHN) vs (WC) Boyan WANG (CHN)/ Yafan WANG (CHN)

Really exciting to see Ankita is trying on tougher tournament though she lost in the first round of the singles ... This experience will going to help her in development.
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At $15K Canada F8 Futures, Toronto

[R1] (4) Viajayant Malik (IND,452) vs (Q) Alexandru Pasareanu (CAN,UNR)
[R1] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,339) vs Duck Hee Lee (KOR,890)
Doubles
[R1] Viajayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Daniel Chu (CAN)/ Erick Chovjka (CAN)

Eager to see Sanam's performance with Vijayant.

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