Thursday, November 06, 2008

Tennis News
At $75K Nashville Challenger, USA

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,241) bt Sam Warburg (USA,161) 76(1) 76(3)

[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,241) vs (3) Jesse Levine (USA,94)

Doubles -
[R1] (Q) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt (WC) Colt Gaston (USA)/ Scoville Jenjins (USA) 76(5) 61

[QF] (Q) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) vs (2) Ashley Fisher (AUS)/ Jim Thomas (USA)

Somi has got back to some decent form as he defeated Warburg in 2 tie-breaks to face Jesse Levine in quarters ... Now time to get one more top 100 win.

Still not sure about their score but Harsh and Ashutosh had winning start against wild-card pair ... In quarters they r facing 2nd seed pair.

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At $35K Rimouski Challenger, Canada

[QF] (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Stephen Amritraj (IND) bt Erik Chvojka (CAN)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) 64 36 10(7)

[SF] (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Stephen Amritraj (IND) vs (WC) Vasek Pospisil (CAN)/ Milos Raonic (CAN)

Kash and Stephen scored super tie-break victory over local pair ... Now they will face another wild-card local pair in the semis.
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At Tennis Masters Cup 2008 (Doubles), Shanghai, China

This year Mahesh and Leander qualified for season ending Masters Cup with their respective partners ... Mahesh and Mark showed decent performance in indoor events but other hand Lee and Lukas struggled ... Hopefully both pair perform well ... Last year Lee reached semis with Damm ... And Mahesh was out due to shoulder operation.

RED GROUP 
Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)
Mark Knowles (BAH)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)
Jeff Coetzee (RSA)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA)
Luis Horna (PER)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU)

GOLD GROUP 
Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)
Jonas Bjorkman (SWE)/ Kevin Ullyett (ZIM)
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND)
Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)

On Sunday, November 9, 2008
Bhupathi/Knowles vs Coetzee/Moodie

On Monday, November 10, 2008
Bjorkman/Ullyett vs Dlouhy/Paes

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