Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Tennis News

At $125K+H Tashkent Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,424) l (1) Jiri Vesely (CZE,52) 63 36 46

Doubles
[R1] (3) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Gero Kretschmer (GER) 64 6-2
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Egor Gerasimov (BLR)/ Ilya Ivashka (BLR) 67(3) 67(5)

[QF] (3) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Denys Molchanov (UKR)/ Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ)

After losing the first set Vesely raised his game for winning next two ... Vishnu started well after winning the first set but failed to keep momentum in next two.

Surprising loss of Divij and Purav against Belarus pair in two tie-breaks ... In the first set our pair managed to generate more break point chances but broke opponents twice only, from 8 chances 2 times ... Other hand Belarus pair had 3 chances and they converted 2 ... In tie-break it seems their serve proved stronger ... In the second set both pairs failed to break other's serve and again in tie-break Belarus pair serve proved too strong for our pair.

Lee-Andre r in the quarters with comfortable win ... They started confidently breaking opponent's in 3rd game, 3-1 and kept that break advantage for winning the first set ... In the second set Lee-Andre broke opponents 1st game to lead 2-0 ... Again they broke opponent's in 5th game to lead 4-1 and kept that couple break advantage for completing a win ... Next they r facing Eastern European pairing of Molchanov and Nedovyesov.


At $50K+H Ho Chi Minh City Challenger, Vietnam

[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,559) vs Yuya Kibi (JPN,235) 5-4 (40-40) match suspended due to rain
[R1] (Q) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,555) l (8) Tastumi Ito (JPN,162) 36 76(3) 16

After losing the first set VSP fought back for winning the second in tie-break but Ito proved too strong for him in the third.

Sanam match is stopped due to rain when he was serving for the set ... Sanam saved 3 break points in 6th game and then broke Kibi in 7th game to lead 4-3 ... In 10th game he missed 2 set points at 40-15 before match get stopped.


At $25K USA F31 Futures, Houston

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,283) bt Andrew Carter (USA,837) 63 60
[R1] Ronit Singh Bisht (IND,886) vs (3) Frederik Nielsen (DEN,417)

[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,283) vs Austin Gonzalez (USA,569)

Yuki is playing in US futures for getting more match practice ... He started with expected comfortable win against Carter ... In the first set he broke Carter in 4th game for 3-1 lead but Carter immediately broke back, 3-2 ... Yuki again broke Carter in 6th game for 4-2 lead ... After 5-3 Yuki won consecutive next seven games for dominating win ... Next he is facing top-600 Austin Gonzalez.

Ronit having tough match against very experienced and former Wimbledon doubles winner Frederik Nielsen.

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