Thursday, July 03, 2008

ITF announced the Olympics field in tennis ... Our players’ r in 3 events.

Sania Mirza in Women's Singles.
Mahesh Bhupathi/ Leander Paes in Men's Doubles.
Sania Mirza/ Sunitha Rao in Womens' Doubles.

And as Lee is already in Wimbledon semis so his ranking will be back in top-20 doubles ranking and that will help our pair to grab 3rd or 4th seeding at Beijing Olympics, which will help to avoid some formidable pair in first few rounds ... But this time Olympics doubles field is toughest considering good pairs of Gonzales/Massu, Djokovic/Zimonjic, Ancic/Ljubicic, Nestor/Niemeyer, Federer/Wawrinka, Nadal/Robredo etc.
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Tennis News -
At $10K USA F16 Futures, Pittsburgh, PA

[R1] (7) Somdev Dev Varman (IND,793) bt (SE) Alexander Domijan (USA,1045) 62 64
[R2] (7) Somdev Dev Varman (IND,793) vs (Q) Roy Kalmanovich (USA,UNR)

Doubles -
[QF] Somdev Dev Varman (IND)/ Treat Huey (USA) bt Bryan Koniecko (USA)/ Justin Kronauge (USA) 62 63
[SF] Somdev Dev Varman (IND)/ Treat Huey (USA) vs Robbye Poole (USA)/ Rylan Rizza (USA)

Somi started again with dominating win against last week's finalist ... In doubles also he and Huey showing required consistency.
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At $10k Damascus Futures, Syria

[R1] (6) Shivika BURMAN (IND,1044) bt Yasmine SAHYOUN (LIB,UNR) 61 46 61
[R2] (6) Shivika BURMAN (IND,1044) bt Polina KONOP (UKR,UNR) 63 75

Good to see Shivika taking advantage of weak field to move into quarter-final.

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