Friday, June 19, 2009

Tennis News
At the Wimbledon 2009,

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,78) vs Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER,51)
[R1] (Q) Rajeev Ram (USA,160) vs Philipp Petzschner (GER,55)

Doubles
[R1] (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs (16) Stephen Huss (AUS)/ Ross Hutchins (GBR)
[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs James Blake (USA)/ Mardy Fish (USA)
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA)
[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Lovro Zovko (CRO) vs (11) Marcelo Melo (BRA)/ Andre Sa (BRA)
[R1] (15) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE) vs Jill Craybas (USA)/ Carly Gullickson (USA)

Qualifier Som and Kevin r facing 4th seed pair of Mahesh and Mark, who r in top draw with top-seed Bryans ... Another qualifier Prkash and Aisam also having tough first round against 16th seed Huss and Hutchins ... Lee and Lukas r in bottom draw with 2nd seeds Zimo and Nestor ... In first round they r facing American pair of Fish and Blake.

Sania is facing German Anna-Lena Groenefeld in womens singles first round ... Before this these 2 met 2 times and both time Sania won in their previous meetings on clay as well as on hard court, but that was way back in 2004 and 2005 ... Still I would say here Sania having upperhand after her good performance in Wimbledon tuneup tournament.

Sania and Chia-Jung r in bottom draw ... Can face 2nd seed Spanish pair of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual in third round.

Rohan is not playing at Wimbledon so his injury looks serious ... Crucial grass season wasted for him due to injury, hard luck.

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