Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Tennis News

At Barclays ATP World Tour Finals 2013, London, England

Doubles B
[M2] (7) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepaneck (CZE) bt (2) Alexander Peya (AUT)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 63 57 10-8

Lee-Radek scored tight win against 2nd seed Peya-Soares in the match tie-break in 1 hour and 42 minutes match ... In the first set Lee-Radek broke opponent in 6th game to take 4-2 lead and kept that one break advantage for winning the second set ... In the second set both pairs hold their respective service games till 11th game ... In 12th game Lee was leading 40-15 but Peya-Soares won next three points and won the set breaking Lee's serve ... In match tie-break Lee-Radek take 3-0 lead which they increased to 9-5 but after that Peya-Soares tried fightback and saved 3 match points ... Lee converted 4th match point for important win in the group.
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At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA

[Q3] (1) Sanam Singh (IND,366) bt Fares Ghasya (LIB,2030) 62 61

[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,368) vs Nils Langer (GER,357)

Doubles
[Q2] (1) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (2) Edward Corrie (GBR)/ Daniel Smethurst (GBR) 62 76(1)

[R1] (Q) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (1) Samuel Groth (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS)

With doubles break Sanam won the first set comfortably against Ghasya ... Same pattern repeated in the second and Sanam won the second set losing only a single game ... In the main-draw he is facing similar ranked German Langer.

Saki-Sanam won their final qualifying in straight sets and in the main-draw theyn r facing top-seed Aussie pair.

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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Vinaroz , Spain (clay)

[R1] Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,786) bt (5) Tatiana Bua (ARG,490) 63 63

[R2] Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,786) vs Paula Badosa (ESP,678)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND)/ Ai Wen Zhu (CHN) bye

[QF] (2) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND)/ Ai Wen Zhu (CHN) vs Carmen Lopez-Rueda (ESP)/ Alice Savoretti (ITA)

Superb upset win by Sowjanya over top-500 South American opponent on clay ... She comfortably defeated Argentine opponent ... Next she is facing local player.

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