Sunday, January 03, 2016

Tennis News

At $425,535 Chennai Open, India

[Q2] (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND,538) l (PR) Ante Pavic (CRO,449) 67(2) 67(0)
[Q2] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,177) bt (2) James Ward (GBR,156) 26 75 64
[Q2] (5) Saketh Myneni (IND,170) l (3) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,157) 46 26

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,177) vs (WC) Andrey Rublev (RUS,185)

Buji scores superb comeback victory over 2nd seed James Ward to qualify for main-draw but our Saki and Bala lose their respective matches.

Buji lost the first set convincingly and was down 1-3 in the second set ... From here Buji made amazing comeback he broke James in 5th game to bring the set on the serve, 2-3 and then took crucial break in 11th game before holding his serve for winning this set ... In the final set Buji broke James in 1st and 3rd games to lead 4-0 ... While serving for the match at 5-2 Buji failed to hold his serve but in 10th game he comfortably hold for important win ... After so-so 2015 Buji started working with his new coach and friend Theodoros Angelinos, who gave new diet plan and fitness regime ... So this is their first test and Buji is started well ... Hoping for few more wins in main-draw for Buji ... He is facing Russian wild-card player Andrey Rublev in the first round.

Bala gave fighting performance in his loss against Pavic ... After losing the first set Bala saved couple of match point in 10th game on his serve ... Bala broke Pavic in 11th game to lead 6-5 but failed to hold for winning the second set ... Pavic didn't gave any chance in tie-break and won it without losing a single point ... Still decent performance by Bala.

I was hoping better result from Saki in this match ... But he struggled with his first serve, only 40% in the match and 33% in the second ... And that cost him the match.


At $50K+H Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (4)Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR)

Purav and Divij r together for Bangkok challenger and facing Skupski brothers in the first round.

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