Rendez-vous winners to get Delhi Open wild cards

Offering more incentive to junior players competing in the ongoing Rendez-Vous event, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) today announced that the winners will be given wild cards for the upcoming Delhi Open.
16 boys and as many girls are competing in the Rendez-Vous, a joint initiative of AITA and the French Tennis Federation (FFT), the winners of which will compete with champions of similar events in Japan, South Korea, China and Brazil to earn a wild card into the junior French Open.
The finalists will be given wild cards for the qualifying event.
"This step is for furthering the cause of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) we have signed with FFT. Our association with them started with the aim of helping our junior players develop an all round game and get exposure. Taking forward the initiative, AITA has decided to award wild cards to winners of the Rendez-Vous A' Roland Garros event," AITA President Anil Khanna said in a press release.

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"I think I should not have allowed him to come back to the match after two sets to love up and 2-love in the third," Djokovic said.

"He started believing in himself. I think the crowd disliked his efforts towards the end of the second set. I think he felt like he needs to step it up and start to play better, which he did."
After giving back an early break in the fourth Djokovic had treatment on his right shoulder, but he broke twice more to close out the win.
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Djokovic arrived at the semi-finals having played just two complete matches in five prior rounds after a walkover from one opponent and the mid-match retirements of two others.

Wawrinka's arduous path to the title match included saving a match point in the third round.
He's spent 17 hours and 54 minutes on court.
Nishikori, coming off his own five-set quarter-final triumph over world number two Andy Murray, seized the initiative with a near flawless first set.
He broke Wawrinka again to open the second, but the Swiss was gradually beginning to find his range and regained the break.
After saving a bevy of break points, he broke in the 12th game to level the match at two sets apiece.
After taking the third and breaking Nishkori at love for a 2-0 lead in the fourth, Wawrinka appeared to be on his way.

Nishikori's last gasp was a break in the fifth game, but a quick break back and a hold at love and Wawrinka was back in charge.
"He dictated play early tonight, put pressure on me and gave me no time," Wawrinka said.
"I had to wait and fight and make him uncomfortable. He got tired and I started to be more aggressive."
Wawrinka, who was in the US Open semis for the third time in four years, was delighted to finally make it to the final.
"I am really excited," he said. "I have seen the final here on TV many times, watching Roger, Rafa, Novak."

Nishikori, meanwhile, was denied a chance to improve on his runner-up to Marin Cilic in 2014.