Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Tennis News
At $100K+H Aegean Tennis Cup 2009, Rhodes, Greece (Hard court)

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,178) bt (Q) Pierre-Ludovic Duclos (CAN,309) 64 60
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA,170) bt (5) Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR,114) 64 64
[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,326) bt (WC) Theodoros Angelinos (GRE,UNR) 61 62
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,147) l Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA,161) 36 26

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,178) vs Michail Elgin (RUS,138)
[R2] Rajeev Ram (USA,170) vs Simon Stadler (GER,173)
[R2] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,326) vs Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,180)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Harel Levy (ISR) bt (1) Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Ashley Fisher (AUS) 76(3) 61

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Harel Levy (ISR) vs Karol Beck (SVK)/ Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE)

Superb performance by Kash, who was down by break 2-4 and 0-30 on his serve but after that he won consecutive next 10 games to scored thumping win ... Also expected easy victory for Rohan, who next face Alex Bogdanovic, who upset 2nd seed Reynolds ... Rajeev also started well scoring upset win.

Another disappointing performance from Som as per fan's expectations ... Som was leading 3-1 with break in the first set but Roger-Vasselin fought back and didn't gave much chance to comeback ... In end he scored easy victory winning 11 games of last 13 games.

Rohan and Levy started with bang upsetting top-seed pair in doubles ... After winning first set in tie-break they handed one sided defeat to top-seed pair.

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At $50K Charlottesville ITF Tournament, VA, USA

[Q3] (5) Shikha Uberoi (IND,593) l Tarakaa Bertrand (USA,790) 63 57 16

Doubles
[R1] Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Alexis Prousis (USA) l (2) Carmen Klaschka (GER)/ Laura Siegemund (GER) 06 36

After losing 2nd set in tight contest Shikha surrendered easily in third set ... And in doubles she and her partner were no match to German pair.

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