Tennis News
At $50K Charlottesville Challenger, Virginia, USA

[R2] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,UNR) bt Scoville Jenkins (USA,230) 16 76(1) 64
[R2] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND,116) bt Izaak Van der Merwe (RSA,264) 62 16 62

[QF] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,UNR) vs (2) Kevin Kim (USA,105)
[QF] (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND,116) vs Matwe Middelkoop (NED,370)

Sanam's amazing run continued in Charlottesville Challenger ... He scored another upset win in 3 sets over experienced American player, Scoville Jenkins ... In this match also he showed his never die attitude after losing first set.

In first set Jenkins was too strong with his first serve and pinpoint ground strokes ... He broke Sanam in 2nd and 6th games to won first set easily ... In second set Sanam started to find his game and his serve started to work for him ... He broke Jenkins in 4th game but Jenkins broke back Sanam's serve in 7th game ... Jenkins also saved couple of set points in 12th game to forced tie-break ... But in tie-break Sanam was too strong, he lost first point in tie-break after leading 5-0 ... Surprising to see Sanam kept fighting in this match ... As this was his 5th match in 6 days in which most of them went to 3 sets ... In third set also Sanam played controlled tennis .. His backhands were working and his first serve percentage was also high ... He broke Jenkins's serve in 3rd game and didn't face single break point on his serve ... He converted second match point to moved into his first challenger quarter-final ... In quarter final he is facing 2nd seed Kevin Kim.

In his match Somdev struggled with his game ... His first serve wasn't working and he didn't able to hit his sharp ground strokes ... But still he managed to hang on against big serving Van der Merwe and scripted victory to moved into quarters.

After both players shared first 2 sets in the beginning of third set momentum was with Van der Merwe ... He started well breaking Somi's serve in third game but Somi broke Van der Merwe's serve in next game to make it 2-all ... This was turning point of the match ... Somi again broke Van der Merwe's serve in 6th and 8th games to complete the victory ... Next in quarter he is facing Dutch player Matwe Middelkoop.

Somdev removed his name from doubles may be due to fatigue after first round and traveling from Asia.
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At $100K+H Chuncheon Challenger, South Korea

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,223) l Igor Sijsling (NED,250) 57 46

Doubles
[SF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) l Andis Juska (LAT)/ Dmitri Sitak (RUS) 63 36 (12)14

Not sure but this week Sijsling looks hot player in this challenger ... But for Kash lost opportunity to go deep in this big challenger.

Purav and Sadik also got upset from unseeded pair in very closely fought super tie-break.