Sunday, September 13, 2015

Tennis News

At US Open 2015, New York




Women's Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (4) Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 63 63

Sania and Martina lift their second grand slam title as a pair after winning US open comfortably ... This is Sania's 2nd Women's doubles grand slam and overall 5th grand slam title ... Other hand after Wimbledon Martina once again wins double crown ... Interestingly she wins women's doubles and mixed doubles title with same Indian partners, Sania Mirza and Leander Paes ... ;-)

In the final they played superb tennis and won it without much trouble ... After winning the first set comfortably they were up with early break in the second ... At 5-2 Hingis was serving for the championship but failed to hold her service game ... Sania-Martina immediately broke Shvedova in 9th game for completing the victory.


At $50K Shanghai Challenger, China

Singles Final
(4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,145) bt Di Wu (CHN,247) 36 60 76(3)

Yuki scores excellent comeback win over Di Wu to lift his fourth challenger title of his career and this title comes after 2013 Chennai challenger title ... This title win will push him inside #125 for the first time in his career.

In the first set Di Wu broke Yuki in 2nd game to lead 3-0 and kept that advantage for winning this set ... Yuki raised his game in the second set ... He broke Di Wu in 2nd, 4th and 6th games to give bagel ... In the final set Yuki missed 3 break points in 2nd game ... Yuki took break in 8th game to lead 5-3 but failed to hold while serving for the match ... In 10th game Yuki missed six match points on Di Wu's serve and one of that was an overhead smash ... Yuki recovered and won the tie-break comfortably for completing victory.

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