Sunday, March 30, 2014

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2014 - Asia/Oceania 2nd Round, Busan, Korea

Indian team
Somdev Devvarman, Rohan Bopanna, Saketh Myneni, Sanam Singh
Non-playing captain - Anand Amritraj
Coach - Zeeshan Ali

Reserved player - Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan

Indian announced same team which won against Chinese Taipei in the first round ... But couple of days back Yuki Bhambri announced his unavailability due to injury ... So now team's balance is little off and Indians add Sanam Singh in the team in the place of Yuki ... So tough outing for this young team as we never beat them in away tie.
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At $15K Philippines F1 Futures, Manila

Singles Final
(8) Karunuday SINGH (IND,486) bt (3) Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,297) 64 57 63

Karunuday wins double crown at Philippines Futures beating another top-300 player, Shuichi Sekiguchi ... This is his 2nd futures title before this he won $10K futures title in 2011 so this is his first $15K futures title.

In the final KU started confidently and won the first set ... In the second set both players matched others game but Shuichi take crucial break for winning it ... KU kept his composure in the final set and won it comfortably for winning the title.

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