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At Davis Cup Group I Asia/Oceania 2009, Chinese Taipei, Kaohsiung

India bt Chinese Taipei 3-2

Fourth Rubber
Somdev Devvarman (IND,150) bt Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,59) 61 62 63

Fifth Rubber
Rohan Bopanna (IND,320) l Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,498) 36 76(6) 67(5)

GREAT SOMI IS BACKKKKKKKKKK!!! Som make me eat my words and I m really happy about that ... :-) He tamed WR #59 and Asia's #1 in straight sets victory ... Undoubtfully Somdev has arrived on the Davis Cup stage!!!

Som started match with holding his serve ... First 3 service games went as per serve and then Som broke Lu's serve converting 3rd break point on 4th game ... Holding his serve in 5th game Som again broke Lu's serve in 6th game and then hold his service game on luv to win the first set.

In second set Lu started with holding his serve and then Som saved 2 break points before holding his serve ... Again after 2-all Som broke Lu's serve in 5th game ... Then after holding his serve Som again broke Lu's serve at 15 in 7th game ... After that Som served for second set and hold easily at 15 to won it.

In third set Som started with breaking Lu's serve after duece but first time he losse focus in the match and lost his serve at 15, first break of his serve in the match ... In 3rd game Lu saved 5 break points before holding his serve ... After holding his serve at 15 Som again break Lu's serve on 2nd break point to lead 3-2 ... Som hold in 6th game after saving 3 break pooints ... Then Lu hold at 30 to make it 4-3 ... Som hold his serve with nice serving at 30 to lead 5-3 ... And broke Lu's serve on 30 to scored biggest upset win abroad by an Indian in Davis Cup since Lee beat Arnaud Boetsch in Frejus in 1993.

In last dead rubber Rohan lost against 17 yrs old Yang, who is current junior French Open and top junior player of 2008 ... Still this was winnable match for Rohan, this loss shows his lack of singles practice before tie ... I really wish he practices singles before our May home tie against Australia.