Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Tennis News

At $2.36M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, UAE

[R2] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,78) l (WC) Malik Jaziri (TUN,137) 36 57

Doubles
[R1] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) bt Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Florin Mergea (ROM) 46 63 16-14

[QF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Denis Istomin (UZB)

This was a big let down after last round win over Del Potro though due to retirement ... This was winnable match and Buji had his chances but he failed to capitalized ... In the first set Jaziri broke Buji in 3rd game to lead 2-1 in next game Buji had 3 break points but Jaziri saved those with huge serving to kept upper hand, 4-2 ... Jaziri again broke Buji when he was serving for staying in the set in 9th game to won this set ... In the second set Buji broke Jaziri in 5th game to lead 4-2 but after that poor serving and shot making cost match for Buji ... Jaziri broke Buji in 8th game to made 4-all ... Then again while serving for staying in the match in 12th game Buji failed to hold and lost this match.

Really good win for Mahesh with Istomin against Marach-Mergea after losing first set ... They won long 30 points match tie-break for entering in to the second round ... Next they r facing Rohan-Aisam for place in the semis.

-----------------------------------------------------------
At $10K India F1 Futures , Chandigarh

Singles Second Round
Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (1) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 63 62
(Q) Ronit Singh BISHT (IND) bt (7) Vijayant MALIK (IND) 63 62
(3) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 62 75
Ronak MANUJA (IND) l (Q) Ko SUZUKI (JPN) 16 36
(5) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt (Q) Kunal ANAND (IND) 46 63 62
(4) Antal VAN DER DUIM (NED) bt (Q) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) 61 60
(6) Mathias BOURGUE (FRA) l (Q) Garvit BATRA (IND) 16 26
(2) Sanam SINGH (IND) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 36 62 62

Doubles Quarter finals
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 76(6) 61
(3) Sho KATAYAMA (JPN)/ Bumpei SATO (JPN) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) 62 63
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) bt (4) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND)/ Gabriel TRUJILLO-SOLER (ESP)76(5) 36 14-12
(2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Garvit BATRA (IND)/ Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) 63 61

Vishnu scored dominating win over top-seed Jeevan to show he is slowly coming back to form ... Ronit Singh scored biggest win as he defeated 7th seed Vijayant Malik in straight sets and next he is facing Vishnu ... All other expected results though RamK and Sanam scored win after losing first set.

No comments:

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...