Monday, August 11, 2008

Tennis News -
At $475K Los Angeles ATP Tournament, USA
[F] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Eric Butorac (USA) bt Travis Parrott (USA)/ Dusan Vemic (SRB) 76(5) 76(5)

The first-time pairing of Rohan Bopanna and Eric Butorac completed successful week capturing Los Angeles ATP title ... This was Bopanna's first career ATP title in his fifth final appearance ... With this win Rohan is back to top-50 doubles ranking, #44.

Eric Butorac - "It was great. We've never played together before. We started out a little slow and kind of got better with each match. I think we're a pretty good team. We both serve pretty good. I'm left-handed, he's right-handed so there's different looks on the serve. It's a good situation to be in."
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At $508 Legg Mason Tennis Classic, Washington DC, USA

[Q3] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,320) bt (2) Go Soeda (JPN,119) 75 75

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,314) vs (WC) Taylor Dent (USA,UNR)

Somi avenged his Vancouver Challenger defeat on big stage against Soeda ... Scored tight sets victory to qualify 2nd year in a row for maindraw of Washington DC ATP tournament.

He is pitted against ex-top-50 player Taylor Dent, who is making comeback on tour after long injury break.

Comments about match from thesabre.com -
Somdev looked good - hit 131mph once on an ace which was pretty cool and he just missed on another serve that hit 130mph ... Go was a good player and came up with some big winners on some balls that Somdev left short a few times ... Somdev hit 2 AMAZING passing shots - can tell he really likes a target at the net.
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Golf News -
At the 90th PGA Championship, Bloomfield Township, Michigan - Final Standing

T9 Jeev Milkha Singh 68 74 70 73 + 5 $176,725.00

Jeev became first Indian golfer to finished inside top-10 in Majors ... On first day he became first Indian to lead Major after first round ... Terrific performance by Jeev on tough US condition, he played this event with ankle injury ... This performance gelped Jeev to back in top-60 world golf ranking, he is on #59 position.

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