Sunday, June 07, 2009

Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[F] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Wesley Moodie (RSA)/ Dick Norman (BEL) 36 63 62

Leander lifted his 3rd French Open title (before this he won in 1999 and 2001 with Mahesh) and 5th Grandslam men's doubles title ... This was Lee and Lukas Dlouhy's first Grandslam title playing together ... Very proud moment in life of 35 yrs old Lee.

After losing first set they dominated match and never gave feeling that they were ging to lose ... They were up 5-0 breaking Moodie and Norman's serve after that Lee lost his serve but extra break's cushion was enough to win second set ... In third set they broke Moodie's serve in 3rd game, they saved break point on Lukas's serve in 6th game ... But again they broke Moodie's serve in 7th game and while serving for championship Lee powerfully served ... He served an ace on championship point to lift another French Open title after 8 years.
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At AEGON Championships 2009, Queens Club, London

[Q1] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND) l Scoville Jenkins (USA) 16 76 36
[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND) bt (7) Chris Guccione (AUS) 76 75

[Q2] Prakash Amritraj (IND) lo Kerol Beck (SVK) 26 46

Prakash again defeated Guccione, Guccione served 23 aces and Kash 9 ... But Prkash lost surprisingly cheaply against Beck, this was winnable match ... Som's lost wasn't suprising but what hurted most that he didn't take chances ... In match Jenkins converted 4 of 5 BPs while Som managed to convert only 1 of 12.
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At $10K New Dehli II, India

Singles Final
(1) Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt Chun-Yan HE (CHN) 63 62

Atlast Ankita managed to end her title drought with easy victory against Chinese opponent, before this she won ITF title in November 2007 beating Sanaa at Aurangabad ... With that Ankita completed her double crown in this ITF event.

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