Saturday, July 11, 2015

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2015, London, Great Britain (Grass)


Women's Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (2) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) 57 76(4) 75

Junior Doubles
[SF] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) bt (5) Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)/ Casper Rudd (NOR) 76(5) 36 12-10

[F] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) vs (4) Reilly Opelka (USA)/ Akira Santillan (JPN)

Sania lifts her first Women's doubles grand slam title with Martina Hingis at Wimbledon ... From the beginning Sania-Martina were playing well but Russian girls also played smart tennis surprising opponents with I-Formation ... Russian girls took crucial break on Martina's serve in 11th game for winning first set ... High quality tennis continued in second set ... Our pair had couple of break points on Makarova's serve which they failed to convert ... This set went into tie-break, our pair took double mini-break on Vesnina's serve to lead 3-0 but Russian pair brought on serve taking double mini-break on Sania's serve 4-5 ... Next on Vesnina's serve again our pair took double mini-breaks, Martina hit amazing backhand down the line on 10th point and then on set point Sania hit breathtaking forehand down the line for winning this set ... Expecting another dog fight in the final set but Sania-Martina were looking tired ... Russian pair took advantage of that breaking Martina in 4th game to lead 4-1 ... Our pair had 3 break point chances on Vesnina's serve in 7th game, 0-40, but failed to convert this golden opportunity ... From 2-5 down our pair started amazing comeback in the match ... When Makarova serving for the match at 5-3 again our pair had 3 break points, 0-40, this time also Russian pair saved all three ... At deuce Sania hit very powerful service return winner in middle of the court and on next point Martina hit volley winner to bring set on the serve, 4-5 ... Next game also went to deuce before Sania holding her serve after hitting amazing running backhand cross-court winner ... At 5-all match stopped for 15 minutes for closing stadium roof ... After break our pair immediately broke Vesnina with superb returning to lead 6-5, first time in this set ... And then Martina served for Championship and hold it on luv ... Amazing victory winning five games in a row from 2-5 down in 2 hours and 31 minutes for Sania and Martina.

Sumit Nagal in the final of boys doubles with his Vietnamese partner Nam Hoang Ly ... They defeated 5th seed Miomir-Casper in well fought three sets ... In first set both pairs hold their respective service games to take this set in tie-break ... From 3-5 down Sumit-Nam won next 4 points for winning first set ... Our pair lost second set as both Nam and Sumit lose their service games ... In final set both pairs were serving well as no break points till 10-all ... Sumit-Nam broke opponents in 21st game and then Sumit served for the match ... Sumit-Nam converted 2nd match point for completing win in 2 hours 21 minutes ... In the final they r facing 4th seed American-Japanese pair.


At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

Singles Final
(7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,173) bt Daniel Nguyen (USA,229) 75 46 76(5)

Somdev wins 2nd challenger title of the year after beating Daniel Nguyen very unconvincing style in more than 3 and half hours long match ... Buji struggled with his serve in this match so match wasn't easy for him ... In first set Buji broke Daniel in 7th game to lead 4-3 but he failed to hold while serving for the set at 5-4 ... Buji immediately broke Daniel in 11th game and then saved 2 break points before converting 4th set point ... In the second set Buji broke Daniel in 1st and 3rd games to lead 4-0 ... And then suddenly Buji's game dipped and he lost next six games to lose this set ... In the final set Buji was 1-3 early down but he broke Daniel in 5th game and again broke him in 9th game to lead 5-4 ... In 10th game Buji missed 3 championship points on his serve before got broken, 5-all ... Again Buji broke Daniel in 11th game to give him one more chance for serving for the match ... This time also he missed championship point at 40-30 before losing this game with double fault ... In tie-break also Buji took early with couple of mini-break, 5-1, but this time also Buji gave Daniel chance for equaling at 5-all ... And at last Buji converted 5th championship point for winning this title ... With this win Buji will again become India's #1 singles player as he will re-enter into top-150 world ranking.

At $549K Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Newport, USA (Grass)

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) vs Malek jaziri (TUN)/ Frank Moser (GER)

Purav and Fabrice r playing in Newport tournament.

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