Thursday, October 31, 2013

Tennis News

At $75K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[R2] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,91) bt Denys Molchanov (UKR,239) 62 63
[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,313) bt Chase Buchanan (USA,271) 64 64

[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,91) vs (7) Rhyne Williams (USA,122)
[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND,313) vs Jesse Levine (CAN,160)

Doubles
[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) l (2) Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Tennys Sandgren (USA) 46 26

Somdev scored easy straight sets win over his Ukrainian opponent Denys Molchanov in 87 minutes ... In the first set Buji broke Denys in 4th game and then again in 8th game for winning this set ... In the second set Buji broke Denys in 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... After that he kept that advantage for winning the match ... In this match Buji had only 48% 1st serve percentage and he saved all four break points but other hand Buji converted three from nine break points ... In the quarter Buji is facing young American Rhyne Williams.

Saketh showed his last win against top-100 player Tim Smyczek wasn't fluke ... He defeated American Chase Buchanan in straight sets for entering into the quarters ... Saki didn't face much trouble in this match as he broke once Chase in both sets ... Next he is facing Canadian Jesse Levine.

In the doubles 2nd seed American pair proved too strong for Buji-Sanam ... They defeated Indian pair convincingly.

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At $50K Traralgon Challenger, Australia

[R2] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,277) bt Michael Venus (NZL,391) 16 63 76(4)

[QF] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,277) vs (4) Tatsuma Ito (JPN,172)

Yuki and Venus practices regularly so know each other game and that showed in their match ... Venus dominated the first set and won it losing only one game ... Yuki fought back and won the second set ... In the third set both players hold their respective service games and in the tie-break Yuki was better player than Venus ... In the quarter final Yuki is facing top-200 Japanese player Tatsuma Ito ... In their last meeting Ito defeated Yuki, so tough match for Yuki.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[R2] Arantxa Andrady (IND) l (7) Janina Toljan (AUT) 36 46
[R2] (5) Shweta Rana (IND) ls (Q) Lena Lutzeier (GER) 46 46

I m really worried about these players development.

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