Australian Open 2018

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Re: Australian Open 2018

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LeePu are down 1-6 - the first set is gone - eminently forgettable. Lets hope they pick up in the second. Im now getting the feed on espn.

2nd set
1-0 Lee starts serve holds at love with some good serving and delectable volleys from both guys.
1-1 Cabal/Farah hold at 1-1 - returns not great from LeePu
2-1 Raja serving gets into a hole at 30-40 pulls out with a second serve ace. 2 doubles in this game - missing many first serves. very poor doubles play by both - they better pick up - 7 deuces this game. Clearly crucial. Somehow holds after a lot of difficulty.
2-2 Cabal/Farah serving much better -much more consistent on serves and returns. LeePu retreat to baseline and lobbing -wont work at this level - 4 first serves in - 4 put away volleys - kicking some serious ass here.
2-3 Paes serving - Cabal/Farah retreat to baseline but perfect reads on purav's stop volleys - 30-all return finds Raja completely at sea at net. 30-40 trouble once again - that's it - broken. Difficult to climb out of this hole unless LeePu really step it up.
2-4 Oops I lost my feed but Cabal/Farah hold to lead 4-2. This is getting difficult. LeePu are not playing at the level they must have played in their earlier match.
2-5 Purav serving - broken again at 15. He is missing way too many first serves and they cant win his serve games. Its that simple.
6-2 and its over....

Cabal/Farah d Lee/Raja - 6-1, 6-2.

Clearly LeePu were not at the level of the previous match.

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Re: Australian Open 2018

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Yes, clearly the intensity of yesterday's match was missing. Unfortunate that that they had to play a match within 24 hours while our other pairs have had a 2 days break. Both of them could not lift them up physically and emotionally it seems.

[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (11) Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL) 16 26
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They must have played PurLee! 😕
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Siddhant got blown away against the Frenchman.

[R1] Siddhant Banthia (IND,41) l.(5) Hugo Gaston (FRA,5) 26 06

Akansha had an early break against Garlad but is broken back and it is now 4-4 in the first set.
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Akanksha lost the first set 67(2). Good fight so far against a top 20 player. Akanksha appears to have decent ground strokes on both flanks but the Taiwaese girl really looks powerful and is hammering her serves and ground strokes.
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She got outplayed in second set.

[R1] (Q) Akanksha A Bhan (IND,116) l. (6) Joanna Garland (TPE,17) 67(2) 06
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sameerph wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2018 3:46 am Yes, clearly the intensity of yesterday's match was missing. Unfortunate that that they had to play a match within 24 hours while our other pairs have had a 2 days break. Both of them could not lift them up physically and emotionally it seems.
Undone by brutal scheduling.
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Yeah, hard luck for Lee and Purav with a cruel scheduling.

In MXD, an expected easy victory for Rohan and Timea Babos against local wild-card pair ... Next, they r facing Vania King and Franko Skugor.

In the junior doubles, Siddhant started with a win partnering Malaysian Chin .. In the doubles second round, they r having a tough match against the 2nd seeds.

Akanksha with Hosogi lost against the 2nd seeds pair.

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (5) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (WC) Ellen Perez (AUS)/ Andrew Whittington (AUS) 62 64

[R2] (5) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Vania King (USA)/ Franko Skugor (CRO)

Juniors
[R1] Akanksha A Bhan (IND)/ Sakura Hosogi (JPN) l (2) Simona Waltert (SUI)/ Xiyu Wang (CHN) 16 67(2)
[R1] Siddhant Banthia (IND)/ Christian Didier Chin (MAS) bt Adrian Andreev (BUL)/ Lodewijk Weststrate (NED) 61 76(5)

[R2] Siddhant Banthia (IND)/ Christian Didier Chin (MAS) vs (2) Sebastian Korda (USA)/ Nicolas Mejia (COL)
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Tomorrow, our both doubles players will be playing their third round matches.

[R3] (16) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (1) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) - 2nd match on Hisense Arena
[R3] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs (7) Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) - 3rd match on Show Court 3
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jai_in_canada wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:06 am They must have played PurLee! 😕
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Re: Australian Open 2018

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I’ll be bold enough to say that the winner of the Ram/Sharan vs Kubot/Melo will get to the final.
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Re: Australian Open 2018

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Match started - RamSharan start off with an easy 1-0 hold.
This looks much more interesting - I am going to watch this closely...cant do play by play at the same time.
Will do a review after the match.
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Re: Australian Open 2018

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WHAT AN AMAZING FIRST SET
RAMSHARAN - YOU SHINE UP 6-3. :D
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Re: Australian Open 2018

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is there any link to live streaming apart from the official website.
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Re: Australian Open 2018

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Ten 2 Showing the match..so maybe sonyliv may work
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