Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) 64 16 67(6)
[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) bt James Cerretani (USA)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA) 57 64 75

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Sophie Ferguson (AUS)/ Carsten Ball (AUS)
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Carly Gullickson (USA)/ Bernard Tomic (AUS)

Mixed doubles draw is out .. Tough draw for Sania and Mahesh to defend their title ... They can face top-seed Lee and Cara in second round if both pairs win their respective first round matches.

Somi and Kash fought hard from the start ... Their American opponents were experienced doubles players and our pair needed to fight for winning every point ... After 1 set all in third set, American pair broke Somi's serve in 4th game to take lead but our pair immediately broke their service in next game ... At 3-4 on Somi's serve our pair saved 3 break points from 0-40 to won that game ... Again in 10th game while serving for staying in the match they were down 3 match point, 0-40, on Kash's serve ... This time also they saved those match points to won this game ... Immediately in next game they broke American pair's serve and then while serving for the match they converted 4th match point to won match ... Excellent victory for them.

Bops and Aisam started well winning first set with single break ... But Rik De Voest and Scott Lipsky came back strongly winning second set ... Third set went to tie-break as both pairs were serving well ... In tie-break until 6-all nobody gave mini-break ... On Rohan's serve Rik De Voest and Scott Lipsky got mini-break to lead 6-7 and they promptly converted this match point to won this match.