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Paes-Nestor advance in Queen’s Club tennis tournament
London: Indo-Canadian pair of Leander Paes and Daniel Nestor won their opening round Queen’s Club tennis tournament match beating Serbian Viktor Troicki and Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut 7-6 (3), 3-6, 10-7 here on Monday.
The match was a fiercely contested affair that took one hour and 21 minutes to decide on a winner at the 1,574,640 euros grass court event.
Paes and Nestor began the match aggressively but they were matched at every step by the Serbian-SPaniard duo. Both teams found it difficult to break the other’s serve and surge ahead at Court 1.
The first set extended to a tie-break and the veteran experience clinched the tie-breaker to go one set up.
The first set determined the tone of the match.
Troicki and Bautista Agut bounced back into the contest, breaking Paes-Nestor’s serve to claim the second set 3-6 and square the contest and push the match into the deciding third set tie-breaker.
In the tense tie-breaker, Paes and Nestor utilised their experience to the hilt, claiming the decider 10-7 to wrap up the match.
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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