Friday, September 05, 2014

Tennis News

At US Open 2014, New York, USA


Mixed Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) bt Abigail Spears (USA)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) 61 26 11-9

Sania wins her third mixed doubles grand slam title with Brazilian Bruno Soares and she is now only Wimbledon mixed doubles title away from completing her career grand slam ... But funnily this whole match was very error-prone ... In the first set error-prone game from Spears-Gonzalez ... Only Sania was hitting winners from forehands and backhands ... From 1-all Sania-Soares next 5 games breaking Spears-Gonzalez twice to win it comfortably ... Fortune reversed in the second set as Soares-Sania made numerous unforced errors ... In that Gonzalez-Spears broke Sania in 4th and 8th games, in that Sania saved couple of set points, to win it comfortably ... In championship tie-break Sania-Bruno take mini-break on 4th point on Spears serve to lead 3-1 ... Spears again double faulted on 12th point to gave double mini-break for Sania-Bruno, 8-4 ... And on 13th point on Spears serve Gonzalez hit in the net Sania's backhand return to gave then 5 championship points, 9-4 ... Next Sania had 2 services and she failed to win those and then Gonzalez hit two big services to save 4 championship points, 9-8 ... Soares mis-judged Gonzalez's return and it was suddenly 9-all ... Soares won point on his next serve to gave them 6th match point ... Next on Spears's serve Soares put pressure and she hit out to gave them championship.
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At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

[QF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,156) l (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170) 57 76(3) 26
[QF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) bt (7) Di Wu (CHN,210) 62 64

[SF] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) vs (5) Luca Vanni (ITA,170)

Doubles
[SF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt James Cluskey (IRL)/ Kyle Edmund (GBR) 76(2) 63

Buji gives dominating performance in his win against local player Di Wu ... In the first set Buji take early two breaks to lead 4-1 to win the set easily ... In the second set Buji take early break to lead 1-0 but Di Wu broke back on 4th game to make it 2-all ... But Buji immediately broke him in 5th game to lead 3-2 and kept that advantage for winning this match ... In the semis he is facing Italian Luca Vanni, who beats Yuki in three sets.

After playing tight two sets Yuki fail to raise his game in the final set for losing it ... Vanni broke Yuki in 1st game but Yuki immediately broke back for 1-all ... After that both players hold their respective service games till 5-all ... Yuki had poor service game in 11th game and Vanni take full advantage for winning it ... After that he hold his service game for winning the first set ... In the second set Yuki take early break to lead 3-1 but Vanni immediately broke back 3-2 ... Yuki again broke Vanni in 6th game to lead 5-2 ... Vanni broke Yuki when he was serving for the set in 8th game, 4-5 ... In tie-break Yuki played well to win it comfortably ... In the final set Vanni dominated with huge service and broke Yuki twice for winning it comfortably ... Vanni served 19 aces in this match.

Buji continues with his good form in doubles also ... He and Sanam beat Cluskey-Edmund in straight sets for entering into final ... Tomorrow Yuki and Divij will play their doubles semi-final.

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