Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Tennis News
At $4.5M Miami Masters, FL, USA

[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,1147) vs Diego Junqueira (ARG,73)

[R1] (WC) Sania Mirza (IND,100) vs Mathilde Johansson (FRA,65)

Yuki having great opportunity to play against top-100 player that also in masters event ... His opponent is clay court specialist and only plays on clay so I m hoping for some miracle here ... If he manage to create biggest upset of his small career then he can meet Andy Roddick in second round.

As expected Sania slide in her ranking, but good news is hence onwards Sania can only go upwards as she is not defending any points until June, Birmingham tournament ... And after that also not much points to defend.

Here she is facing French woman and if she manage to beat her then she will face WR No. 2 Dinara Safina in second round.

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At $50K Khorat Challenger, Thailand

[R1] (7) Somdev Devvarman (IND,150) l Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,196) 57 36

[R2] Rajeev Ram (USA,203) vs Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,196)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (WC) Pongsatorn Benjamas (THA))/ Prach Mahathavorn (THA) 64 61
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Mathieu Montcourt (FRA)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 63 63

[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Izak Van Der Merwe (RSA) vs (2) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS)/ Dmitri Sitak (RUS)
[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Purav Raja (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND)

Somdev's disappointing performance in singles on challenger level continues ... Another first round loss, disappointing result from fans point of view ... But may be Som and his team working on developing tools in his game which help him on longterm ... C'mon Som.

As expected our doubles teams scored victories and facing eachother in quarters.

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