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

[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,202) bt Kevin Kim (USA,114) 63 63
[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,332) l Denis Istomin (UZB,109) 46 67(3)
[R1] (Q) Rajeev Ram (USA,204) l (4) Ivo Karlovic (CRO,25) 46 36

Somi's match with Kim was similar counter-punching style of tennis ... But Somi won this match without much trouble ... In this match his serve was looking real weapon as he served 8 aces against none by Kim ... But Somi still need to develop killer FH or BH to finish of the points earlier ... I m sure he and his support team already working on that aspect of the game ... In second round Somi is facing WR #42 and 6th ranked Spanish Carlos Moya, huge test for Somi.

This win give Somi 20 ranking pts to move his total on 432 pts .. That means he will become first Indian after Leander Paes to enter into top 200 around #195 on ATP ranking.

Rohan struggled with his first serve as he had below 50 first serve percentage in the match ... In second set 2 time he was up breaking Istomin's serve, one time he was serving for the second set 6-5 but his serve let him down and that cost him the match.