Thursday, August 07, 2014

Tennis News

At $100K Aptos Challenger, USA

[R2] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,132) bt Ze Zhang (CHN,186) 67(4) 76(6) 75

[QF] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,132) vs (1) Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ,55)

Doubles
[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs Andrea Collarini (ARG)/ Cesar Ramirez (MEX)
[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Kevin King (USA) l (WC) Ruben Bemelmans (BEL)/ Laurynas Grigelis (LTU) 57 36

As I hoped this match turn into very interesting one ... Buji pulled a win despite Ze was more dominating in this match ... In the first set Buji was up with break at 4-3 and then at 6-5 but both times he failed to hold his serve ... Ze won the first set in tie-break ... In the second set Buji broke Ze in 2nd game to lead 3-0 and then 4-1 ... From here Ze tried fightback ... He broke Buji in 7th game to bring set on the serve, 4-all ... In tie-break Ze take mini-break on 1st point and kept that lead till 5-4 ... While serving for the match from 5-4 Ze lost next 2 points on his serve ... Buji failed to convert first set point at 6-5 on his serve but on 7-6 he take mini-break for converting the second set point ... In the final set Buji was early break down but he fought back and brought set on the serve at 3-all ... After that both players held their respective service games before Buji take crucial break in 11th game ... This time Buji hold his serve for excellent win for this three hours match ... Next Buji is facing top-seed and top-50 type Kazakh player Mikhail Kukushkin.

Divij's inconsistent performance continue and he lose his match with Kevin against wild-card pair in straight sets.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Koksijde, Belgium

[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,277) bt Irina Ramialison (FRA,286) 76(3) 63

[QF] Ankita Raina (IND,277) vs Sofiya Kovalets (UKR,256)

Ankita continue with her good run and beat French girl Irina Ramialison in straight sets ... After winning the first set in tie-break Ankita controlled the second set ... In the quarters she is facing top-250 type Ukrainian girl Sofiya Kovalets, who scored upset win over 4th seed in the first round.
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At $15K Kazakhstan F11 Futures, Astana

[QF] (4) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,377) bt (7) Andrey Rublev (RUS,461) 67(6) 75 64

[SF] (4) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,377) vs (1) Denys Molchanov (UKR,191)

Doubles
[SF] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Sagadat AYAP (KAZ)/ Djurabeck KARIMOV (UZB) 60 62

[F] (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) vs (1) Ti CHEN (TPE)/ Denis MATSUKEVITCH (RUS)

Huge comeback win for Bala against current JR WR #1 and current JR French open champion Andrey Rublev for entering into the semis ... Andrey won tight first set in extra points of tie-break ... After that Bala needed to dig deep for winning the second set and then he kept that momentum in third for fighting win ... Next he is facing top-200 Ukrainian Denys Molchanov.

Another dominating win by Bala-Ranjeet in the doubles only losing two games ... In the final they r facing top-seed Ti Chen and Russian Denis Matsukevitch.

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At $10K USA F23 Futures, Edwardsville

[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) bt (Q) Tom Fawcett (USA,UNR) 63 64

Doubles
[SF] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Patrick Davidson (GBR) bt Hunter Reese (USA)/ Jack Schipanski (AUS) 76(2) 36 12-10

Another comfortable win for Yuki ... Other hand Saki and his British partner need to dig deep for their win over Reese-Schipanski ... Need extra points in match tie-break for this win.
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At World Junior Tennis Championship - Girls (G14), Prostejov, Czech Republic

India l Spain 0-3
Shivani Ingle l Marta Del Pino 60 16 36
Sathwika Sama l Carlota Molina Megias 26 46
Aarja Chakraborty/ Sathwika Sama l Marta Del Pino/ Laura Lopez Giese 46 16

So with this loss our girls poor outing ends in u14 WJT ... In this tie Shivani managed to win a set against her Spanish opponent but otherwise disappointing efforts.

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