Thursday, September 04, 2014

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA

Doubles
[SF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) l Martina Hingis (SUI)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 26 46

Sania-Cara fail to raise their game against Hingis-Pennetta and lost their match convincingly ... So another miss opportunity for Sania-Cara as they came near but failed to convert.
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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[R2] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,396) l (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170) 46 63 36
[R2] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,156) bt Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,247) 63 67(4) 63
[R2] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) bt Takuto Niki (JPN,383) 67(4) 62 63

[QF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,156) vs (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170)
[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs (7) Di Wu (CHN,210)

Doubles
[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 63 75
[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Luca Vanni (ITA) 64 76(4)

[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs James Cluskey (IRL)/ Kyle Edmund (GBR)
[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) vs (2) Ti Chen (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)

Yuki manage to hold challenge of Tsung-Hua Yang in three sets ... Yuki take a break to lead 4-2 to win the first set with a single break advantage ... In the second set both players hold their respective service games to took set in tie-break ... In tie-break Yuki was two mini-break down 0-3 and then never recovered for losing this set ... In the decider Yuki lost his service game in 1st game to 0-2 but h fought back and broke Yang in 4th game for leading 3-2 ... Then Yuki take another break of serve of Yang for winning this match ... In the quarters he is facing Vanni.

Buji need to dig deep for his comeback win over Takuto Niki in three sets ... In the first set both players hold their respective serves for taking it in tie-break ... In the tie-break Buji was down 0-2 and he take mini-break back to lead 3-2 but afterwards he managed to win only single point and lose five points for losing the set ... In the second set Buji broke Niki in 1st and 3rd game but failed to hold his serve in 2nd game to lead 2-1 and then he take another break in 7th game for comfortably winning this set ... Buji kept momentum in decider and then take early break to lead 4-2 ... Buji again broke Niki in 9th game when he was trying to remain in the match ... In the quarters he is having tricky match against local player Di Wu.

Sanam gives fighting performance against Vanni ... In the first set Vanni take early break to lead 3-2 and kept that advantage for winning it ... In the second set Sanam take early break to lead 4-1 and kept that advantage for winning it ... In the third set Sanam lost his serve in 4th game and with that one service break advantage Vanni won the set and match.

Sanam scripted terrific win with Buji against top-seed and experienced pairing of Ratiwatana twins ... They defeated Thai pair in straight sets ... In the semis they r facing another unseeded pair of James Cluskey and Kyle Edmund ... Divij and Sanam also joins them after scoring straight sets win over Italian pair ... In the semis they r facing 2nd seed Taipei pair.

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At $10K Iran F10 Futures, Tehran

[QF] (5) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND,884) l (2) Alexis MUSIALEK (FRA,451) 06 62 26

After losing one-sided first set Vijay Sundar fightback to win the second but fail to keep momentum in the final set.

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