Friday, May 29, 2009

Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[R2] (14) Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)/ Urszula Radwanska (POL) 64 67(5) 36

[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt Josselin Ouanna (FRA)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 63 62

[R2] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (AHO)
[R2] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt James Cerretani (USA)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 46 63 62

Mahesh and Mark had easy outing to moved to second round.

Lee and Lukas started slowly ... After losing first set they came into act from 4-3 in second set ... They broke opponent's serve in 8h game to win second set ... In third set they dominated Cerretani and Stakhovsky, broke their serve twice to scored victory.

Radwanska sisters were tough pairing on clay but Sania and Chia-Jung started well after exchanging breaks they grabbed important break to won first set ... In second set also they started well breaking Radwanska sisters serve early but they couldn't keep momentum ... Radwanska sisters won second set in tie-break and they won third set breaking Sania and Chia-Jung's serve twice.

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At $15K Kuwait F1 Futures, Meshref

[SF] (Q) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) l (7) JAZIRI Malek (TUN,572) 26 46
[SF] (8) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,583) l (6) GHAREEB Mohammad (KUW,562) 46 67(4)

Vijayant creditable run as qualifier ended in semis ... Vishnu also lost but he fought hard against local player, who was very experienced.
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At $10K ITF Womens Futures, New Delhi

Semi Finals
Ying-Ying Duan (CHN) bt (Q) Yi Zhong (CHN) 61 63
(6) Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) l (5) Keren Shlomo (ISR) 36 26

Rushmi lost her singles semi-final but won doubles with her Chinese partner Chun-Yan He ... They easily defeated 2nd seed pair of Keren Shlomo and Australian Kristina Pejkovic, 62 61

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