Thursday, July 02, 2009

Tennis News
At the Wimbledon 2009,

[QF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) l (9) Wesley Moodie (RSA)/ Dick Norman (BEL) 67(9) 64 67(7) 75 46

Boys Doubles
[R1] Mitchell Frank (USA)/ Sudanwa Sitaram (IND) l (2) Cheng Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) 16 26

As expected Mahesh and Markdoubles quarter-final was marathon match, which lasted for 3 hours and 37 minutes ... Both pairs had big serve so very few service breaks happened in the match ... After Moodie and Norman won first set in tie-break Mahesh and Mark won second set with single break of serve ... Again Moodie and Norman won third set on tie-break, this time also Mahesh and Mark won close fourth set with single break of serve ... Mahehs and Mark only lost their serve in fifth set when Mahesh played loose first game and that was enough for Moodie and Norman to won set and match.
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At $50K Winnetka Challenger, USA

[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Scoville Jenkins (USA) l (3) Todd Widom (USA)/ Michael Yani (USA) 57 64 (7)10

Good fighting performance by Harsh and his partner against 3rd seed pair but lost in super tie-break.
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At $50K Boston ITF Womens Tournament, MA, USA

[R1] Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Audra Cohen (USA) bt Brittany Augustine (USA)/ Jennifer Elie (USA) 62 57 14(12)

[QF] Shikha Uberoi (IND)/ Audra Cohen (USA) vs (1) Yi Chen (TPE)/ Mashona Washington (USA)

Shikha and her partner won first round match in tight super tie-break, next they r facing top-seed Pair.
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At $15K India F5 Futures, New Delhi

Singles Second Round
(1) TAKEUCHI Kento (JPN) bt (WC) SHOKEEN Vivek (IND) 76(5) 64
(6) GAJJAR Rohan (IND) bt REDDY B Vikram (IND) 60 62
SINGH Ashutosh (IND) bt (3) NAM Hyun-Woo (KOR) 36 63 62
(7) VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjit (IND) bt PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR Vignesh (IND) 63 62
(5) SHARAN Divij (IND) bt RAJA Purav (IND) 76(1) 62
(4) BHAMBRI Yuki (IND) bt (Q) VIJAYRAGAVAN Ashwin (IND) 61 62
(8) ROY Rupesh (IND) bt (WC) MANUJA Ronak (IND) 64 62
(2) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) bt (Q) KANNAN Vijay (IND) 64 63

Doubles Quarter Finals
(1) GAJJAR (IND)/ RAJA (IND) bt KIRRTANE (IND)/ MANUJA (IND) 36 64 13(11)
(3) SHOKEEN (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt BAXENDINE (GBR)/ KANNAN (IND) 64 61
MALIK (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt (4) MURALI (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) 64 46 11(9)
(2) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 61 63

Ashutosh scored upset win over 3rd seed Nam, so now only top-seed Japanese is only non-Indian in singles and doubles draw.

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