Tennis News
At US Open 2009, New York

[Q2] Somdev Devverman (IND,161) bt Igor Sijsling (NED,305) 63 67(6) 63

[Q3] Somdev Devverman (IND,161) vs Jerzy Janowicz (POL,229)

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,71) vs Olga Govortsova (BEL,64)

Somdev started well breaking Sijsling's serve in 4th game and that single break was enough to win first set ... It looks Sijsling was matching Somi's game with duel from baseline ... He broke Somi's serve in 4th game and Somi was down 1-4 ... But Somi fought back and broke Sijsling's serve in 7th game .. Set was back on serve ... In tie-break Somi take minibreak in first point but afterwards Sijsling won 5 points on a row to gave himself 4 set points at 6-2 ... Somi saved all 4 set points to 6-all but again Sijsling won next point and grabbed 5th set point to take second set ... Sijsling was looking on roll as he broke Som's serve in first game but Somi roared back breaking Sijsling's serve in next game ... In 5th game Somi saved a break point on his serve and that turned to be turning point ... As in next game Somi broke Sijsling's serve to lead 4-2 and then hold serve easily to moved into final qualifying round ... In end match turned out to be very competitive than we expected ... Why I commented that Sijsling seems to having similar game as somdev's as in this match each players had hardly 3 or 4 unforced errors which is quite remarkable.

Next Somi is playing 18 yrs old Polish Jerzy Janowicz also known as 'next Ivo Karlovic' on tour, who looks talented with his steady rise in ranking and more importantly if we checks his losses which are 57 or 67 in third set ... So Somi need to play his A game against this talented youngster.
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At $50K Almaty Challenger, Kazakhstan

[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt Rylan Rizza (USA)/ Jose (rubin) Statham (NZL) 64 62

[SF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) l (2) Denys Molchanov (UKR)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 16 46

Purav and Sadik won their quarter-final match easily but they also lost their semis very easily against 2nd seed pair... But still good showing by Purav and Sadik in $50K challenger.
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At $10K India F8 Futures, New Delhi


Semi Finals
(1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (3) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) 4-2 Retd
(2) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt Krishananth BALAKRISHNAN (AUS) 62 64

Vishnu overcome over Young-Jun Kim, who was on hot-streak winning 8 matches on a row in last 2 weeks, as he retired from the match ... Other hand Yuki scored easy straight sets victory over Australian Balakrishnan.