Saturday, February 01, 2014

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2014 - Group I Asia/Oceania -1st Round, Indore, India

India bt Chinese Taipei 3-0

Day One
[M1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,173) bt Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,216) 64 64 67(1) 63
[M2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,103) bt Ti Chen (TPE,284) 67() 76() 16 62 9-7

Day Two
[M3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 60 67(3) 63 76(2)

Today Buji came out with plan of attacking and won two games quickly in that breaking Ti Chen in 16th game ... So this win gave us 2-0 lead.

In the doubles Rohan-Saketh breezed through first set and won it without losing a game ... From the second set Taipei pair started to target Saketh and forcing unforced errors out of him ... Taipei pair won the set in tie-break ... With a single break advantage our pair won the third set ... In the fourth set Taipei pair tried hard but they failed to broke Indians ... In tie-break Rohan-Saketh take early 3-0 lead and then 3-2 won next 4 points in a row for winning this match ... So this win give us winning 3-0 lead and return singles matches r only academic.

Now on April 4 to 6 we r facing Korea in Korea for World Group play-off place.

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At Delhi Challenger, India

Qualifying First Round
(1) Hiroki KONDO (JPN) bt Ajai SELVARAJ (IND) 61 61
Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt Vignesh VEERABADRAN (IND) 62 62
Joshua MILTON (GBR) bt Tyler HOCHWALT (USA) 36 61 63
(7) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 62 63
(2) Marek SEMJAN (SVK) bt Kunal ANAND (IND) 64 61
N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Bharath-Srinivasan PARTHASARATHY (IND) 61 63
Artem SITAK (NZL) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND) 36 36
(5) Sanam SINGH (IND) bt Lucas RENARD (SWE) 75 63
(3) Victor BALUDA (RUS) bt Torsten WIETOSKA (GER) 63 64
Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Sidharth RAWAT (IND) 63 75
Rahul Robinson MANOAH (IND) bt Neishit VAKIL (IND) 62 60
(6) Richard BECKER (GER) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 62 67(4) 63
(4) Michael VENUS (NZL) bt Jeevan VELU (IND) 63 61
Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Raswant RAVI (IND) 61 62
Tristan-Samuel WEISSBORN (AUT) bt Jatin DAHIYA (IND) 64 63
(8) Karunuday SINGH (IND) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 63 76(3)

Expected win for our players but still good win by Sasi Kumar.

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