Thursday, February 13, 2014

Tennis News

At 2.4M Qatar Total Open, Doha (WTA Premier 5)

[R2] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt Karolina Pliskova (CZE)/ Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) 46 62 10-4

[QF] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) vs (7) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)/ Nadia Petrova (RUS)

Slow start for Sania-Cara but after losing first set they dominated the match against Pliskova twins ... Next they r facing tricky Russian pair of Pavlyuchenkova-Petrova.
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At $50K Kolkata Challenger, India

[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,100) bt Adrian Menendez Maceiras (ESP,208) 46 61 63

[SF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,100) vs (3) Evegeny Donskoy (RUS,127)

Doubles
[SF] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Gerard Granollers (ESP)/ Adrian Menendez Maceiras (ESP) 63 67(5) 10-7
[SF] (WC) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ)/ Blaz Rola (SLO) 64 64

[F] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (WC) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND)

Somdev needed comeback to give himself winning gift on his birthday ... In the semis he is facing Russian Evegeny Donskoy ... In the quarters Buji started on back foot as Adrian broke him in 1st game ... Andrian kept lead till 7th game but at 3-4 Buji broke Adrian to made it 4-all ... Adrian immediately broke Buji in next game and then hold his serve for winning first set ... In second set Buji managed to put pressure on Adrian's serve ... Buji broke Adrian in 2nd and 4th games to lead 5-0 and then kept that double break advantage for winning this set ... In final set Buji broke Adrian in 3rd game to lead 3-1 ... After that Buji kept that advantage and then again broke Adrian in 9th game when he was serving for staying in the match ... So after losing first set Buji gave dominating performance against his Spanish opponent.

In the doubles Saketh-Sanam continues with their fine run and scored upset win over Spanish pair in the semis ... In first set Saketh-Sanam didn't face a single break point on their serves and they converted their single break point opportunity for winning the set ... In second set both pairs traded single break but Spanish pair won tie-break to take this match in the match tie-break ... In match tie-break both pairs traded multiple mini-breaks but Indian pair kept their focus to winning it.

Divij-Vishnu make sure of all Indians final in the doubles with straight sets victory over Nedovyesov-Rola ... In both sets our pair made comeback ... In the first set they were 1-4 down before winning next five games in a row for winning it ... In the second again they were break down at 0-3 but this time also they fought back and won 6 games from next 7 games for good victory.

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