Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Tennis News

At $2.8M Qatar Total Open, Doha WTA Premier 5)

[R2] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) bt Yi-Fan Xu (CHN)/ Saisai Zheng (CHN) 64 46 10-4

Sania-Martina score their win #41 in match tie-break against Chinese pair.

At $2.67M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, UAE

[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,107) l Lukas Rosol (CZE,46) 62 67(2) 06

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA) 46 26

For me it is really puzzle that how Yuki manages to lose this match from winning position ... Yuki dominated first set for winning it comfortably with couple of breaks ... In the second set Yuki broke Rosol in 2nd game to lead 3-0 but Rosol broke him in 5th game for 3-all ... At 5-4 Yuki had 3 match points on Rosol's serve, 0-40 ... Yuki failed to convert these chances ... From tie-break it was downfall for Yuki as he was 0-5 down to lose this tie-break easily ... In the final set he failed to win a single game and lost this match poorly ... I think failing to convert one of match point disturbed his mental set-up and he never recovered from that ... May be this was learning experience but in my opinion very had one.

Veteran pairing of Mahesh and Aisam fail to challenge Italian pair and lose their match in straight sets.


At $10K Tunisia F7 Futures, Hammamet (Clay)

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,421) vs (2) David Perez Sanz (ESP,261)

Tough first round match for Sumit.

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