Thursday, May 14, 2009

Tennis News
At €3.7M Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open, Spain

[R2] Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt (2) Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP)/ Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) 76(4) 46 10(7)
[R2] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) l Stephen Huss (AUS) / Ross Hutchins (GBR) 46 57

[QF] Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Victoria Azarenka (BLR)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS)

This pair of Chia-Jung and Sania is cooking ... They scored their second win over WR # 2 pair in 3 meetings ... In this match our pair won crucial points as Garrigues and Ruano Pascual won more points than their opponents, 80 to 71 ... After winning first set in tie-break Sania and Chia-Jung lost second set but they again played well in super tie-break to pulled of upset win in almost 2 hours.

Yesterday in mens doubles 5 upsets scored and in those losses pair of Mahesh and Mark were their with Bryans.

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At $50K Raleigh Tournament, USA (Clay)

[R1] (LL) Shikha Uberoi (IND,583) bt (6) Soledad Esperon (ARG,249) 46 63 61

[R2] (LL) Shikha Uberoi (IND,583) vs Lilia Osterloh (USA,234)

Doubles
[R1] Florencia Molinero (ARG)/ Shikha Uberoi (IND) l Melanie Oudin (USA)/ Allie Will (USA) 64 26 (7)10

Very good comeback upset win for Shikha against top-250 Argentine player on clay ... I wasn't expecting this so very sweet win but lost her doubles match in super tie-break.
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At $25K Tanjung Selor Tournament, Indonesia

[R1] Ankita BHAMBRI (IND,391) l Cynthia MELITA (INA,UNR) 26 46
[R1] Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND,550) l (6) Montinee TANGPHONG (THA,374) 46 76(6) 06
[R1] (7) Isha LAKHANI (IND,460) l Sarah-Rebecca SEKULIC (GER,1071) 36 57
[R1] Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,457) bt Mi-Rae HAM (KOR,1020) 60 75

[R2] Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,457) l (Q) Sarah-Rebecca SEKULIC (GER,1071) 57 26

Disappointing stuff from senior players like Ankita and Isha ... Poojashree won first round but lost against lowly ranked German qualifier.

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