Playing with a wildcard, Somdev should have it easy in the quarters tomorrow as the ATP ranked 100th will have an easy opponent in Spain’s Adrian Menendez-Maceiras, who is ranked 208th.
Somdev is the only Indian in fray in the USD 50,000 event. There was also disappointment in store for the ATP Chennai winner Yuki Bhambri, who made a shock second round exit going down to third seed Evgeny Donskoy without any resistance. The day’s play also saw two upsets in tournament fourth seed Go Soeda of Japan and seventh seed Radu Albot of Moldova who were ousted by their respective opponents. It was a memorable day for Taiwanese qualifier Ti Chen, who showed the door to Roger Federer’s Davis Cup teammate and ‘good friend’ Marco Chiudinelli 7-5 6-7 6-3 in a marathon two-hour 51-minute battle.
‘I served very well, something that helped me take the upper hand. It feels I’m slowly getting into my A game,’ a delighted Somdev said after wrapping the issue in 57 minutes.
‘He’s an extremely dangerous player but his serves were not up to the mark and gave me a lot of free points. I happy with the way I’m going on,’ he said giving credit of his fitness to trainer Milos Galecic and physio Abhimanyu Singh.
Somdev is the only Indian in fray in the USD 50,000 event. There was also disappointment in store for the ATP Chennai winner Yuki Bhambri, who made a shock second round exit going down to third seed Evgeny Donskoy without any resistance. The day’s play also saw two upsets in tournament fourth seed Go Soeda of Japan and seventh seed Radu Albot of Moldova who were ousted by their respective opponents. It was a memorable day for Taiwanese qualifier Ti Chen, who showed the door to Roger Federer’s Davis Cup teammate and ‘good friend’ Marco Chiudinelli 7-5 6-7 6-3 in a marathon two-hour 51-minute battle.
‘I served very well, something that helped me take the upper hand. It feels I’m slowly getting into my A game,’ a delighted Somdev said after wrapping the issue in 57 minutes.
‘He’s an extremely dangerous player but his serves were not up to the mark and gave me a lot of free points. I happy with the way I’m going on,’ he said giving credit of his fitness to trainer Milos Galecic and physio Abhimanyu Singh.