Monday, February 10, 2014

Tennis News

At $50K Kolkata Challenger, India

[R1] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,350) l Daniel Cox (GBR,250) 61 57 46
[R1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,100) bt Mohamed Safawat (EGY,211) 64 64
[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,657) vs (Q) Ti Chen (TPE,284)
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,145) vs (Q) Liang Chi-Huang (TPE,285)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Karunuday Singh (IND) 62 46 10-8
[R1] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND)
[R1] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) vs Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ)/ Blaz Rola (SLO)

Sanam started confidently to lead 3-0 after breaking Cox in 2nd game ... With another break of serve and Sanam won first set comfortably ... In the second set also Sanam was playing nicely and was break up and serving for the match at 5-4 ... But then typical Sanam's inconsistency came into the game and Sanam lost next 3 games and in that lost his serve twice in 10th and 12th games to lose second set ... In third set Sanam was break up at 2-1 but lost next serve to 2-all ... Then again Sanam broke Cox in 7th game to lead 4-3 but this time also he failed to hold his service game in in next game, 4-all ... Cox broke Sanam again in 10th game when he was serving for staying in the match ... In this match Sanam lost his service 7 out of 14 times, so that gives us whole picture of the match ... Again big missed opportunity.

In the first set Buji needed to fightback from two service breaks down to won it and he kept that momentum to win this match in two sets.

In the doubles two matches r all Indian players ... In such match Saki-Sanam scored tight win in match tie-break against RamK-Karunuday ... Saki-Sanam started confidently and won first set comfortably ... RamK-KU fought back and won second set with single break advantage ... The match tie-break was close but Saki-Sanam used their experience in advantage for winning it.

Again Yuki is facing Liang Chi-Huang in first round ... Vishnu is facing another Taipei player Ti Chen, with lack of match practice I m not sure about his performance ... In the doubles Buji-Purav looking strong pair but they r facing tricky first round against Divij-Vishnu.

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