Sunday, September 07, 2014

Tennis News

At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

Singles Final
(2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,143) l Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN,245) 46 76(5) 67(3)

Doubles Final
(3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) 76(2) 67(4) 10-8

Buji fail to convert many chances to lose against 18 yrs old left-hander Nishioka ... In the singles final Buji played scratchy game and other hand young Nishioka was going for shots ... In the first set Buji broke Nishioka in 1st game but then failed to hold his serve in next game, 1-all ... At 4-5 Buji was leading 40-0 on his serve but lost this service game from here to lose the set ... In the second set Buji missed early break points and then failed to hold his serve in 6th game to down 2-4 ... In next game Nishioka made double faults which helped Buji for taking breat back, 3-4 ... After that set went to tie-break and due to early mini-break Buji was down 1-4 ... Buji dig deep and won six points from next seven points to take match into the decider ... In the final set Buji broke Nishioka in 4th game to lead 4-1 but at 5-3 when Buji was serving for the match he failed to hols his serve, 5-4 ... In 12th game Buji had a match point on Nishioka's serve but he missed it ... This time Nishioka played superb tie-break for winning his first challenger title.

In very entertaining doubles final Divij-Yuki lifts another doubles title beating their compatriots Sanam-Buji in match tie-break ... Buji played three hours long singles final before this match but still he was there to play such long match ... So in end this turn to be disappointing day for Somdev as he lose both finals.

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