Friday, February 21, 2014

Tennis News

At $100K Delhi Challenger, India

[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,96) bt Zhe Zhang (CHN,229) 62 retd.

[SF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,96) vs (4) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,114)

Doubles
[SF] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (4) Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP)/ Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ) 63 62
[SF] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (2) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 63 36 7-10

[F] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (2) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

Buji broke Zhang in 1st and 3rd games to take 4-0 lead and kept this double break advantage for winning first set ... After losing first set Zhang retired from the match citing shoulder injury ... So last week's semi-final is repeating again between Buji and Donskoy but this time I m hoping for different result than last week.

Saki-Sanam scored very confident win over 4th seed pair and enter into their second challenger final in two weeks and that's also in this big $100K challenger ... So they r in chance of lifting their 2nd challenger title in two weeks.

In the final they r facing Ratiwatana brothers, who defeated Indian wild-card pair of Vishnu-Jeevan in match tie-break ... Vishnu-Jeevan started well after winning first set but Ratiwatana brothers fought back and won second set ... Ratiwatanas proved better pair in match tie-break.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, New Delhi, India

[QF] Ankita Raina (IND,285) l (3) Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR,180) 36 57

Decent fighting performance in loss by Ankita against her experienced Ukrainian opponent, Yuliya Beygelzimer ... Hopefully her win against Noppawan in previous round turn around last 4 months slump.

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