Thursday, October 16, 2014

Tennis News

At $50K Indore Challenger, India

[R2] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND,142) l Liang-Chi Huang (TPE,300) 76(4) 46 46
[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,262) bt (6) Yuki Bhambri (IND,184) 76(4) 63

[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,262) vs Ti Chen (TPE,236)

Doubles
[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) 63 postponed
[QF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 76(4) 62

[SF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) w/o

RamK score upset win over Yuki showing he is improving to challenge Yuki and Buji for India's #1 singles player ... In the first set both players hold respective service games till tie-break but in tie-break Ramk played aggressively for winning it ... In the second set Yuki broke RamK in 3rd game to lead 3-1 but after that RamK won next five games ... In that he broke Yuki in 6th and 8th games, while serving for the match Ramk saved break point before completing straight sets victory ... With this win RamK enter into his first challenger level quarter-final ... Next he is facing experienced Ti Chen.

Buji struggled to break Liang-Chi's serve in first 2 sets ... Buji managed to win first set in tie-break but lost the second when Liang-Chi broke him in this set ... Buji failed to raise his game into decider and lose this set on similar score ... This is really poor loss for Buji against 300 ranked Taipei player.

Yuki-Divij beat Japanese pair in straight set for entering into the semis ... In the semi-final they receive walkover as Vishnu's right knee injury.

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