Saturday, December 28, 2013

Tennis News

At $400K Aircel Chennai Open 2014, India

[Q1] Sanam SINGH (IND,391) bt (WC) Ajai SELVARAJ (IND,1454) 60 60
[Q1] (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,1606) vs. (2) Go SOEDA (JPN,103) 67(2) 57 46
[Q1] N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,385) vs. Henri LAAKSONEN (SUI,245) 16 75
[Q1] (WC) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,2050) l (3) Dusan LAJOVIC (SRB,116) 36 46
[Q1] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,519) bt (WC) Sumit NAGAL (IND,1675) 62 60
[Q1] Saketh MYNENI (IND,315) l Philipp OSWALD (AUT,979) 36 46
[Q1] N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,708) l Ze ZHANG (CHN,255) 46 16

[Q2] Sanam SINGH (IND,391) vs Frederik NIELSEN (DEN,617)
[Q2] Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,519) vs Mikhail ELGIN (RUS,958)

[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,195) vs Pablo CarreƱo Busta (ESP,65)
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,90) vs Qualifier
[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,312) vs Jiri Vesely (CZE,84)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Benoit Paire (FRA)/ Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
[R1] (WC) Karen Khachanov (RUS) / Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP)/ Albert Ramos (ESP)
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) vs Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Frank Moser (GER)
[R1] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT)
[R1] (WC) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA)
[R1] (2) Fabio Fognini (ITA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)

Mohit Mayur was 1-5 down before he tried excellent comeback ... He managed to made it 5-all before losing the set in tie-break ... Mohit Mayur broke Soeda in 7th game to take 4-3 lead but failed to hold when serving for the set at 5-4 ... In 11th game on Soeda's serve Mohit Mayur had 3 break points, 0-40, which he failed to convert ... After that Soeda broke Mohit Mayur when he was serving for staying in the match and completed victory.

Balaji lost the first set without much fight ... In the second set Bala fought neck to neck and take crucial break of serve in 11th game on Henri's serve ... And then hold his service game for winning this set ... In the third set also both players fought hard but this time Henri broke Bala in 10th game when he was serving for staying in the match for completing the victory.

Young Sasi Kumar gave decent performance in his loss against top-125 Serbian opponent Lajovic ... Vijay Sundar lost in one-sided match against Zhang ... I was hoping better performance by Saketh bu he struggled with his serve in this match and big serving 6'7" tall Oswald take full advantage of it ... After losing the first set Saketh tried fightback but his serve cost him the match ... In the second set Saketh broke Oswald in 1st game but failed to hold his serve in next game, 1-1 ... Saketh again broke Oswald in 5th game, 3-2, but lost his serve in 6th and 8th games to falling behind 3-5 ... Saeth broke Oswald in 9th game when he was serving for the match, 4-5, but again lost his serve in 10th game for losing the match.

RK scored very dominating win over young Sumit losing only two games ... Next he is facing top-75 type doubles player, who was top-125 singles player before, Russian Mikhail Elgin ... Sanam crushed Ajai Selvaraj as he he double bageled Ajai ... Sanam is facing experienced Danish player, who was top-200 in the singles, who is former top-20 and current top-60 doubles player Frederik Nielsen.

The singles draw is out and Buji having favorable draw as he is facing an qualifier in the first round ... Yuki and Jeevan r also facing unseeded players but having real hope from Yuki only.

The doubles draw is also out ... Rohan-Aisam r top-seed pair and Lee is partnering Italian Fabio Fognini ... Divij is playing with Yen-Hsun Lu in preparation for Australian open ... Happy to see Purav find higher ranked partner in Dudi Sela to participate in Chennai open.

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