Monday, August 17, 2009

Tennis News
At the Rogers Cup, Montreal, Canada (ATP Masters 1000 tournament)

[F] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt (7) Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 64 63

Considering their tough fighting victory in semis this win in the final looks cackwalk ... :-) ... So with this victory Mahesh lifted his record breaking 5th Rogers Cup doubles title with 4 different partners.

So pair of Mahesh and Mark r peaking right time for US Open.

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At $2M the Rogers Cup, Montreal, Canada

[Q2] Sania Mirza (IND,74) l Heidi El-Tabakh (CAN,195) 16 63 36

This was great opportunity for Sania to qualified for big WTA event but she couldn't take this opportunity ... Very rarely player faced 200 ranked player in final qualifying on big WTA event ... This was definitely winnable match but again Sania played old record of bad service games ... In final game of the match Sania had 3 break points, 0-40, but she couldn't managed to convert will tell us whole story of the match.
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At $35K+H Karshi Challanger, Uzbekistan

[Q1] (4) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,502) bt Syrym ABDUKHALIKOV (KAZ,625) 63 60
[Q1] Purav RAJA (IND,1013) bt (7) Toshihide MATSUI (JPN,516) 63 64

[Q2] Purav RAJA (IND,1013) l Murad INOYATOV (UZB,607)
[Q2] (4) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,502) l Andrei CIUMAC (MDA,1289) 67(0) 46

Doubles
[R1] Purav RAJA (IND)/ Sadik KADIR (AUS) vs (WC) Djakhongir DJALALOV (UZB)/ Sergey SHIPILOV (UZB)

Very surprising and shocking loss below 1250 ranked player for Yuki ... Hoping one of bad day in the office without any injury issue ... Purav also scoring good upset win in first round lost to local player in second round.
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At $10K ITF Thailand Futures, Nothanburi

[R1] (2) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,459) vs (WC) Satjaporn MAHAJAROENKUL (THA,1065)

[R1] Kumari-Sweta SOLANKI (IND,791) vs Beatrice GUMULYA (INA,895)
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At $10K Thailand F1, Nothanburi

[Q1] (6) SINGH Karunuday (IND,1430) bt HOLLAND-SMITH Samuel (AUS,UNR) 60 61
[Q2] (6)SINGH Karunuday (IND,1430) bt SUWANASANG Tas (THA,UNR) 62 62

[R1] (Q) SINGH Karunuday (IND,1430) vs (Q) KIM Woo-Ram (KOR,1061)

Good to see Karunuday qualified for maindraw but why he is playing in Thailand when 3 weeks Indian futures started this week.

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