Saturday, July 16, 2016

Tennis News

At Davis Cup Asia/ Oceania Group I 2016 - Second Round, Chandigarh, India


India bt Korea 3-0

Day One
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,217) bt Seong Chan Hong (KOR,427) 63 26 63 5-6 retd.
[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,150) bt Yong-Kyu Lim (KOR,626) 61 36 64 36 5-2 retd.

Day Two
[R3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Hong Chung (KOR)/ Yunseong Chung (KOR) 63 64 64

Our pair produce clinical win over Korean Chungs without much fuss and wrap the tie ... Our pair won first 2 sets with a single break advantage ... In the third they broke Hong in 1st game but Chungs broke Lee in 6th game for 3-all ... Immediately on next service game our pair broke Yunseong and then kept that advantage for winning the set, match and tie ... So with this win we r back in World group play-off match.

Also a 42nd Davis Cup doubles win for Leander, which equals Nicola Pietrangeli's record for most Davis Cup doubles victories.

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