Friday, November 01, 2013

Tennis News

At €€2.6M Paris Masters, France

[QF] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) l (4) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 67(5) 63 4-10

After losing the first set in tie-break Rohan-Edouard fought back to won the second set ... But 4th seed Dodig-Melo dominated the match tie-break.
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At $75K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,91) l (7) Rhyne Williams (USA,122) 67(4) 46
[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND,313) l Jesse Levine (CAN,160) 46 06

Disappointing loss of Buji against Rhyne ... In both sets Buji was up with break before losing the advantage ... In the first set Buji broke Rhyne in 4th game to take 4-1 lead but Buji lost his serve in 9th game when he was serving for the set at 5-3 ... After Rhyne take the set in tie-break before winning it ... In the second set both players held their respective service games till 6th game ... Again Buji broke Rhyne in 7th game to take 4-3 lead but after that Rhyne won next three games ... And in that he broke Buji twice in 8th and 10th games to won this match in straight sets.

Saki was troubling with wrist injury and Jesse take full advantage of it ... He defeated Saki comprehensively.

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At $50K Traralgon Challenger, Australia

[QF] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,277) bt (4) Tatsuma Ito (JPN,172) 64 16 75

[SF] (8) Yuki Bhambri (IND,277) vs (2) James Duckworth (AUS,138)

Really good win by Yuki against former top-60 Japanese Tatsuma Ito ... Yuki won a wild opening set involving a combined five breaks of serve ... But Ito fought back to level the match after winning the second set convincingly ... In the final set both players played solid tennis from baseline but Yuki take crucial break in 12th game ... Yuki converted 2nd match point when he take 0-40 lead on Ito's serve ... Next Yuki is facing 2nd seed James Duckworth, against same opponent he lost in last week’s Melbourne Challenger.

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