Thursday, February 19, 2015

Tennis News

At Delray Beach International Tennis Championship 2015, USA

[QF] (2) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Treat Huey (PHI)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) 63 64

Lee-Raven score comfortable straight sets win over Huey-Lipsky for entering into the semis.
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At $100K Delhi Challenger, India

[R2] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,564) bt (1) James Duckworth (AUS,112) 36 75 64
[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,272) l (7) Radu Albot (MDA,165) 46 26
[R2] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,153) bt Nicola Metkic (CRO,266) 64 62
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,414) bt Egor Gerasimov (BLR,260) 63 63

[QF] (5) Somdev Devvarman (IND,153) vs (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,564)
[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND,258) vs Kimmer Coppejans (BEL,183)
[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,414) vs (7) Radu Albot (MDA,165)

Doubles
[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) l Egor Gerasimov (BLR)/ Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS) 57 67(4)
[QF] (WC) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Toni Androic (CRO)/ Pedja Krstin (SRB)

Sanam score huge comeback win to beat top-seed Duckworth ... After losing the first set Sanam digged deep for winning the second ... In the final set Sanam took crucial break in 5th game to lead 3-2 ... Afterwards he kept that lead for excellent win.

RamK struggles against Radu in this match ... After losing the first set Radu broke him in 1st game to lead 2-0 in the second ... With another service break Radu scored comfortable win.

Yuki score convincing win over Egor ... With early break Yuki won the first set ... In the second set Egor broke him early but Yuki immediately broke back and with couple of more breaks he completed victory ... Next he is facing Radu Albot.

I m surprise by Buji's this win considering his recent dreadful form ... Buji score dominating win over Metkic without any hiccup ... In the quarters he is facing his best friend Sanam.

Bala-Vishnu move into semis with win over Androic-Krstin but other hand favorite Sanam-Saki lose their match in close two sets against Gerasimov-Kudryavtsev.

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