Sunday, February 15, 2009

Tennis News
At € 1.445M ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands

[SF] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt (4) Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 62 76(4)

[F] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs (1) Daniel Nestor (CAN) / Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

Another good straight sets win for Lee and Lukas ... After winning first set easily they were stetched in the second set to tie-break ... But they prevailed over 4th seed pair in 1 hour 14 minutes ... Both pair faced 4 break point chances, but Lee-Lukas managed to save 3 and Knowle-Ram pair managed to save only 1.

In the final Lee facing his old nemesis Zimo with their respective partners.
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At $600K SAP Open, San Jose, California , USA

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) bt (4) Stephen Huss (AUS) / Ross Hutchins (GBR) 36 76(5) 10(5)

[F] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) vs Tommy Haas (GER) / Radek Stepanek (CZE)

Rohan and Jarkko showed their yesterday's win against Bryans wasn't fluke in their comeback win against 4th seed pair of Huss and Hutchins ... Yesterday also they saved total 6 break-point chances from 9 they faced in the match ... Other hand Huss and Hutchins faced only 3 break point chances and managed to save 1 ... In crucial second set Rohan and Jarkko saved 5 break points from 6 ... And again they showed their supremecy in super tie-break with their huge serves.


In the final they r facing another unseeded pair of Hass and Stepanek.
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Golf News
At AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am - Third Round

T33 Arjun Atwal 68 73 71 -4
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T109 Daniel Chopra (PH) 75 71 73 +3
T146 Vijay Singh (PH) 72 75 75 +6

Arjun started from back 9 at Poppy Hills and was 3 under for the day scoring birdies on 12th, 14th and 16th holes after completing back 9 ... But he struggled on front 9 scoring back to back bogeys on 2nd and 3rd, after that on 7th hole ... He managed to end day on positive note scoring birdie on last hole.

Daniel and Vijay had forgettable AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am tournament as both ended well below the cut-line.

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