Saturday, January 16, 2016

Tennis News

At $405K Apia International Sydney, Australia

Doubles Final
(4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) l Jamie Murray (GBR) / Bruno Soares (BRA) 63 67(6)

Rohan-Florin lose their final against unseeded pairing of Murray and Soares ... After losing first set easily Rohan-Florin kept fighting in the second ... In tie-break they had 3 set points at 6-3 but failed to convert it ... They lost 5 points in a trot for losing the set and match.

At Australian Open 2016, Melbourne

[Q3] Saketh Myneni (IND,168) l (22) Mirza Basic (BIH,137) 63 46 6-8

Saki miss big opportunity of playing in main-draw of grand slam ... Saki started well and broke Mirza in 6th game to lead 4-2 ... Saki kept that advantage for winning the first set ... In the second set both players were holding their respective service games till 9th game ... Mirza broke Saki in 10th game for winning this set ... In the decider Mirza broke Saki in 2nd game for taking 3-0 lead ... From 2-5 Saki made small comeback as he broke Mirza in 9th game when he was serving for the match, 4-5 ... At 6-all Saki failed to hold his service games and then Mirza hold his service games for winning the match ... Saki missed numerous break points on Mirza's serve, he struggled on his big serve at crucial juncture of the match and that cost him this match.

At $75K+H Manila Challenger, Philippines

[Q1] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,278) bt Benjamin Balleret (MON,491) 75 46 63
[Q1] (8) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,421) bt Alexander Vasilenko (RUS,589) 46 76(4) 61

[Q2] (2) Sanam Singh (IND,278) vs Chu-Huan Yi (TPE,775)
[Q2] (8) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,421) vs (1) Kamil Majchrzak (POL,276)

Surprisingly our both pairs get stretched to three sets ... VSP needed to dig deep after losing the first set ... Next VSP having tough match against top-300 Polish player ... Sanam having winnable match but he is struggling with removing his rustiness after longish break.

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