Friday, October 11, 2013

Tennis News

At $125K Tashkent Challenger, Uzbekistan

[SF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Dudi Sela (ISR)/ Amir Weintraub (ISR) 57 63 13-11

Another good comeback win by Divij-Purav against experienced Israeli pair for entering into the final ... After losing the first set our pair fought back and won the second set ... In see-saw match tie-break our pair prevailed in extra points but before that they missed match poin on their own serve at 10-9.
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At $15K USA F26 Futures, Houston, Texas

[QF] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,359) l (8) Tyler Hochwalt (USA,573) 67(3) 06

Doubles Final
Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (4) Evan King (USA)/ Costin Paval (ROU) 76(5) 64

Sanam lost in the singles quarter final against 570+ ranked American ... After losing the first set in tie-break Sanam failed to won a single game in the second. But inn the doubles final Sanam-Vijayant lifted title beating 4th seed King-Paval in tight two sets ... Sanam-Vijayant won the first set in tie-break and then won the second set with a single break advantage.
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At $10K Greece F14 Futures , Marathon - Athens

[QF] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,535) l (3) Claudio Grassi (ITA,466) 46 67(5)

Prajnesh's fighting performance against Grassi wasn't enough but still another decent performance by Prajnesh.
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At $10K Germany F18 Futures, Leimen

[QF] (5) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,451) bt (1) Adrian Sikora (SVK,329) 36 63 76(5)

[SF] (5) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,451) vs (6) Erik Crepaldi (ITA,567)

Sikora won the first set comfortably but in the second set Bala was up 2-0 breaking Sikora in 1st game ... Bala again broke Sikora in 9th game for winning the second set ... In the third set also Bala broke Sikora early in 2nd game to lead 2-0 but this time Sikora immediately broke back and made it 2-1 ... The third set went in tie-break and Bala kept his nerve for winning it ... After long time Bala produced this super performance and big upset win against top 330 player ... In the semis Bala is facing Italian opponent.
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At $10K Great Britain F20 Futures, Sunderland

Doubles Final
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ David PEL (NED) l (3) Josh GOODALL (GBR)/ Harry MEEHAN (GBR) 36 64 8-10

Vijay Sundar and his Dutch partner Pel tried fight back after losing the first set ... They won the second set but failed to kept momentum in match tie-break ... British pair won this close match tie-break for lifting the title.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[QF] (3) Natasha PALHA (IND) l Helen PLOSKINA (UKR) 06 46

Poor loss of Natasha against Ukrainian girl.

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