Tennis News
At $450K Aircel Chennai Open 2010, India

Wild cards for Chennai Open r declared ... As expected Somdev Devvarman received wild card in singles, he is also receive wild card for doubles with his UVa team-mate Sanam Singh ... Organizers take good decision giving second wild card to Rohan Bopanna over Yuki Bhambri ... As next Davis Cup World group tie is coming near so Rohan getting more match practice is important ... Third wild card went to Carlos Moya as he is making comeback after injury ... Carlos also received doubles wild card with Yuki Bhambri.

So Yuki missed singles wild card, but also Harsh Mankad get ignored by organizers for doubles wild card.
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At "Glam Slam Showdown of Champions" 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Russia bt Asia 3-0

Elena Dementieva/ Maria Kirilenko bt Sania Mirza/Jie Zheng 64 57 10(8)
Maria Kirilenko bt Jie Zheng 63 46 64
Elena Dementieva bt Sania Mirza 64 76(0)

Though Sania lost her both matches but as from onlooker all players played high quality tennis ... So good fighting performance by Sania in her year end matches.
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At $75K ITF Women's Tournament, Dubai, UAE

[Q1] (6) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,330) bt Ekaterina DRANETS (RUS,881) 64 62
[Q2] (6) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,330) bt Viktoria YEMIALYANAVA (BLR,587) 76(4) 63
[Q3] (6) Poojashree VENKATESHA (IND,330) l (2) Natalia ORLOVA (RUS,267) 62 26 16

Last week Poojashree played $75K qualifying tournament and performed as per her ranking ... Good to see she is able to stretched top-250 type player to 3 sets.