Day Ten

HunFord Open Day 10, witnessed two semifinals being played at Bridford.

In the first match, Ajeet and Vinayak were up against Raj and Sampath for second semifinal for event 1. Raj and Sampath already being tipped as favourites for their aggressive game, displayed their intense tennis on court and were up 4 – 0 in no time as they broke both Vinayak and Ajeet’s serve. However, Ajeet and Vinayak were not bowing out too easily and showed some movements in the court. There were some cracking smashes from Ajeet at net, one of which saw the ball rebounding from the turf and sailing over the court to the pond and some good returns from Vinayak. However they were unable to withstand the fast and furious serves of Raj and some intelligent winners being hit by Sampath. This ensured that Raj and Sampath now face Kanchan and Nishanth in finals for the event 1 as they one the match by 6 – 2.

The second match saw Apurva and Vinu, D1, up against Prajeet and Shaunak, C1. As was expected the crowd was witness to some amazing cross court rallies and some cheeky shots being played at nets. Vinu and Apurva were quick to grab some offerings offered by Shaunak and Prajeet taking a 3 – 1 lead. However Shaunak and Prajeet quickly bounced back and soon the scores were level at 3 – 3. But some unforced errors from Prajeet and few shots of Shaunak not crossing the net again saw Vinu and Apurva take lead. Where there were few chances at net which Apurva converted to points, Vinu was showing an amazing baseline game covering the entire baseline and hitting some furious shots. Finally Shaunak and Prajeet ran out of fuel and lost the match to Vinu and Apurva by 8 – 6. So there we also have the first finalist for event 2.

Final Scores :
Raj / Sampath bt Ajeet / Vinayak : 6 – 2
Vinu / Apurva bt Shaunak / Prajeet : 8 – 6

Story and Pictures by Ajeet and Mani.