Saturday, January 31, 2009

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2009, Melbourne

Doubles Final
(3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) l (2) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 26 75 60

Today Mahesh failed to add second 2009 Australian Open title for Indians in Mens doubles but tomorrow he and Sania having opportunity to doing that in Mixed doubles title.

Mahesh and Mark started well breaking Bob Bryan's serve in the first game of the final ... They again broke Bob's serve in the fifth game to grabbed first set 6-2 in 27 mins ... Until first set and half Bob Bryan was struggling with his serve and game ... Other hand Mark Knowles was also struggle with his serve from second set ... Bob and Mark saved couple of break-point chances on their respective serves in second set but most crucial and only break came in 12th game when Bryans broke Mark's serve to captured second set ... After that Bryans didn't give any chance to Mark and Mahesh in this final ... They won 8 games on trot to won Australian Open title in the style from 5-all in the second set ... This was Bryans 7th grandslam title.

Mahesh by far was best player on the court in the first 2 sets but Mike Bryan played amazing match from seond set.

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