First match saw Sachin & Shardul facing Vinayak & Ajeet. After losing both their previous match, Sachin & Shardul were playing for pride and to gain an outside chance of making to the semis, while Vinayak & Ajeet after losing their first game needed to win this one to keep their semis dreams alive. Ajeet & Vinayak playing in tandem at nets produced some good smashes and taking and early lead of 3 – 1 by breaking Shardul. Then there was no looking backing for them as they kept on increasing their lead. Meanwhile there some good winners hit by Shardul and some smashing serves, served by Sachin. In the end Vinayak & Ajeet prevailed 6 – 2 over Sachin / Shardul whose journey in the HunFord open came to an early end.
Mayank & Noble paired up against Vinu and Apurva for second match of group D. Crowd was witness to some really good rallies between the foursome running all over the court and displaying good tennis show. The match, also disrupted by rain god for few moments, gave a tough time to the umpires and lines-men as well who had a tough time picking up the right calls with serves and shots going so fast. The match which went on till 5 – 5, witnessed some several deuce games and several serve breaks with Noble dropping some cheeky ones across the net and Apurva hitting some smashing shots from the net. While these two were displaying the power from the net, Mayank and Vinu held on to the baseline with some classic shots and coming to net and playing equally well drop shots. It was at 5 – 5 when Mayank and Noble lost their serve and were unable to break the next one when Vinu and Apurva gained a crucial lead of 7 – 5. Mayank and noble then held on to their serve to push the game to 7 – 6 but Vinu served his game out to see his team through to semis.Story and Photos by Ajeet and Mani
Awesome blogging. I haven't seen all the matches however your vivid description helped to relive the event..
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