Saturday, October 03, 2015

Tennis News

At $2.5M Wuhan Women's Open, China (WTA Premier 5)



Doubles Final
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/ Monica Niculescu (ROU) 62 63

Sania-Martina win their seventh title of the year with another comfortable win, this time against Romanian pair ... Our girls must be hoping for more challenging next China open.

At $50K+H Agri Challenger, Turkey

[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND,199) bt (3) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,114) 76(5) 64

[SF] Saketh Myneni (IND,199) bt Denys Molchanov (UKR,307) 63 36 76(1)

[F] Saketh Myneni (IND,199) vs Farrukh Dustov (UZB,153)

Doubles
[SF] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Alexander Igoshin (RUS)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR) 46 63 9-11

Saki scores one of the best win of his career beating Russian Evgeny Donskoy in straight sets ... After resuming Saki won the first set tie-break with a single mini-break ... In the second set also Saki took important break to finish this match in two sets ... If he wins all matches then he is going to play three matches in a day ... So very long day for Saki.

Next in the semis Saki beats Ukrainian Denys Molchanov in three sets, in their last meeting Saki lost against him at last year's Fergana challenger ... This was huge win as in October Saki is defending chunk of his ranking points, 123 pts ... From the beginning Saki was keeping pressure on Denys's serve and broke him in 6th game to lead 4-2 ... Saki kept that advantage for winning the first set ... In the second set Saki broke Denys in 1st game to lead 2-0 but after that it was complete Denys show as he broke Saki in 4th and 6th games to lead 2-5 ... This time Denys kept advantage for winning this set ... In the final set Saki broke Denys in 6th game to lead 5-2 but while serving for the match at 5-3 Saki failed to win a single point on his serve, 5-4 ... After that both players hold their respective service games to take this set in tie-break ... In tie-break from 2-1 Saki won next five points for completing important win ... In the final he is facing Uzbek Farrukh Dustov for the title.

Saki and Divij were early break down at 2-3 and failed to overcome that deficit to lose the first set ... In the second set Saki-Divij took crucial break in 8th game and then Saki hold his serve for winning it ... In match tie-break both pair exchanged couple of mini-breaks till 6-all ... Our pair saved a match point on Saki's serve at 8-9 but lost next point to give 2nd match point to Igoshin-Shyla and this time they converted it.

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