Tennis News
At Australian Open 2009, Melbourne

[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)/ Mischa Zverev (GER) 63 62
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Vania King (USA) l Vera Dushevina (RUS)/ Olga Savchuk (UKR) 64 16 16
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Yves Allegro (SUI)/ Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 46 61 62

[R2] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Igor Kunitsyn (RUS)/ Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)
[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Fabio Fognini (ITA)/ Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)

Very dominating performance by 3rd seed pair in 52 mins match, where they broke opponent's serve 5 times and lost their serve only once ... Good start for AO for Mahesh and Mark.

But Sania and Vania lost their long doubles match in 1 hr 51 mins ... In this match they broke oppoent's serve 5 times but lost their own serve 9 times ... Though last 2 sets score r one-sided but they r misleading as in both sets went for longer duration so mostly many service games went to deuce.

Lukas double faulted twice in his first service game to lose it and with that single break Allegro and Santoro won first set ... But in second set Lee and Lukas comeback strongly, they broke opponent's serve twice to won 2nd set easily ... In third set also they broke Allegro and Santoro's serve in 3rd and 7th game to win first round match against this tricky pair.