Day Two

HunFord Open Day 2 saw the kickstart of Event 2 on Thursday. But no, not with Tennis Game but with Nishanth’s B’day celebrations. All the participants gathered at the Hunters Chase Tennis Court to give the B’Day Bash to Nishanth. The Cake cutting ceremony was then followed by some great tennis games by the experts, with Nagesh & Supriya teaming up against Swami & Vineet for the first match of the event 2

Match Summary:

Nagesh & Supriya were bang on target breaking the very first serve of the game, but Swami & Vinit fought back to get themselves back into game with some superb net smashes from Swami and equally good baseline shots from Vinit. But court seemed to be too small for Nagesh & Supriya who took turns to cover the entire baseline area, running from one end to another. In the end Nagesh & Supriya prevailed over Swami & Vineet winning the game 8 – 4.

The second match saw Aditya & Sonu battling out with Vinu & Apurva. The initial half of the game only determined that this won’t be and easy cake for any of these teams. Where the powerful serves from Vinu was matched by equally powerful serves from Aditya, the cool game from Sonu matched the equally cool game from Apurva. With nobody losing any serve, the game went on to 3 – 3 when finally Aditya and Sonu broke Apurva’s serve to take the lead. But Vinu & Apurva would not sit quietly and were right back in game breaking the next serve from Sonu and getting the game back to equal on 5-5.Then the series of serve breaks continued, when Aditya and Sonu held on to their nerve to finally serve for 2 match points at 7-6. But this game was not going to be over so soon. Two double faults from Aditya saw Vinu and Apurva back into game pushing the match to tie breaker after 8 – 8. In the tie breaker Vinu and Apurva took an early lead to 5-2 but Aditya Sonu made a comeback but finally losing the tiebreaker by 7-5.

Final Scores :
Nages & Supriya bt Swami & Vineet : 8 – 4
Vinu & Apurva bt Aditya & Sonu : 8 – 8 (7-5)

Story and pictures by Ajeet,Mani,Vinit and Tanmay.