Sunday, September 14, 2014

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At Davis Cup - World Group play-off 2014, Bengaluru, India

India l Serbia 2-3

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 36 26 57
[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 16 64 36 26

Day Two
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Nenad Zomonjic (SRB)/ Ilija Bozolac (SRB) 16 67(4) 63 63 8-6

Day Three
[R4] Somdev Devvarman (IND,144) bt Dusan Lajivic (SRB,61) 16 64 46 63 62
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,153) l Filip Krajinovic (SRB,107) 36 46 46

Somdev completes superb fighting win in 3 hours and 37 minutes against WR #61 Dusan Lajivic in five sets thriller to took tie in fifth rubber ... In the first set Dusan broke Buji twice for taking it comfortably ... In the second set Buji raised his game and matches with Dusan ... Buji saved 8 break points and converted crucial in 10th game for winning this set ... In the third set Buji broke Dusam in 2nd game to lead 3-0 but from 4-1 suddenly dip in Buji's game ... Dusan take full advantage of it and he won next five games breaking Buji in 7th and 9th games for winning this set ... In the start of fourth set Buji was under pressure but after third game both players started to play attacking game ... From 2-1 in Buji's favors we experienced 5 break of service games in a row ... In that Buji broke Dusan in 4th, 6th and 8th games and other hand Dusan broke Buji in 5th and 7th games ... Buji hold crucial service games in 9th game for taking match into decider ... In final set Buji saved couple of break points from 15-40 in 2nd game for 1-all .. After that Buji dominated the set he broke Dusan in 3rd and 7th games and other hand holding his service game comfortably for winning the set and match for India.

In the final rubber Filip had a good start as he take advantage of Yuki's wayward game to broke him 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... Yuki broke Filip in 5ht game to 2-3 but again lost his service game in next game with unforced errors, 2-4 ... Filip kept that advantage for winning the set ... In the second set Yuki started well and broke Filip in 2nd game to lead 2-0 but afterwards usual Yuki's erratic game came back ... He lost next four games losing his service twice in 3rd and 5th games, 2-4 ... Yuki managed to recover and he broke Filip in 8th game for making 4-all ... After that match stopped due to rain break ... Match continued on Monday and Filip immediately broke Yuki in 9th game ... Then he hold his service game for winning the second set ... Filip take early break in the final set and kept that advantage through out the set despite facing couple of break points ... Filip won the set and match, so with that Serbia manage to keep their place in World Group but other hand India is back in Asia-Oceanic group ... In this match Yuki hit 34 winners and Filip hit 24 winners but Yuki made 66 unforced errors in comparison Filip made 38 unforced errors ... Yuki need to learn of playing percentage tennis whenever needs.

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