Friday, January 23, 2009

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2009, Melbourne

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Santiago Ventura (ESP) 36 64 61
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds(USA) bt Dusan Vemic(SRB)/ Lovro Zovko(CRO) 46 64 62

[R2] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds(USA) bt (15) Travis Parrot(USA)/ Filip Polasek(SVK) 76(5) 46 64
[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Fabio Fognini (ITA)/ Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) 63 64

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt (6) Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Pavel Vizner (CZE) 62 64

[R2] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) vs Nicolas Lapentti (ECU)/ Tommy Robredo (ESP)

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Stephen Huss (AUS)

Winning start for Bops and Nieminen in AO doubles ... They faced only 1 break-point in this match on their serve and their Spanish opponent converted that to win the first set ... But then it was service dominated match for Bops and Nieminen, who had 8 break-point chances and they converted 3 to win this match in 1 hr 13 mins.

Lee and Lukas moved into 3rd round with straight sets victory ... In 2nd round match, Lee and Lukas started positively breaking opponent's serve twice in 5th and 9th game to won first set in 26 mins ... In second set they had few break point opportunities but they managed to convert it in only 10th game to won this match.

Mahesh and Sania scored exciting win over 6th seed Czech pair in 1 hr and 8 minutes ... Their service were broken 3 times in the match but they broke Czech pair's serve 6 times in 7 break-point chances they received ... In second round they r facing Aussie pair.

Rajeev is also performing well with his doubles partner, they r in the third round with 2 good wins and mostly will play Bryans.

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