Monday, January 05, 2009

Tennis News
At $450K Chennai Open ATP Tennis Tournament, India (5 - 11 Jan 2009)

[Q3] Rohan Bopanna (IND,332) bt (2) Michael Berrer (GER,134) 46 63 64
[Q3] (4) Rajeev Ram (USA,204) bt (5) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,218) 64 67(4) 63
[Q3] (1) Flavio Cipolla (ITA,138) bt (7) Alex Satschko (GER,273) 63 61
[Q3] (3) Danai Udomchoke (THA,152) bt (8) Kyu Tae Im (KOR,295) 76(5) 61

Excellent comeback victory by Rohan against almost 200 ranks higher German opponent Michael Berrer, who was ranked as high as 51 in November 2007 ... After losing first set Bops played excellent controlled game in this 1 hour 58 minutes match ... In this match Bops served 15 aces without any double faults ... He converted 4 break point chances of 6 he got, other hand Berrer converted 3 from 7 break points he received.

Rajeev also joined Rohan, Somi and Kash in the main draw.

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