Sunday, August 15, 2010

Tennis News
At $2.43M Rogers Cup, Toronto, Canada

[Q1] Sania Mirza (IND,153) l Arantxa Rus (NED,127) 63 67(5) 46

Doubles
[SF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) l (2) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 64 36 4-10

They lost against Bryans after winning first set ... After winning second set Bryans were too strong in super tie-break.

Sania started well winning first set ... In second set 2 times she had opportunity of serving for the match but both time she lost her serve ... With this display it is hard to believe that she will qualify for US Open main-draw.

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At $2.43M Western & Southern Financial Group Masters, Cincinnati, USA

[Q1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,111) bt (7) Marco Chiudinelli (SUI,65) 63 76(3)

[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,111) vs Tim Smyczek (USA,206)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bye
[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bye
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs (WC) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Bobby Reynolds (USA)

Somi started well breaking Chiudinelli's serve in first game ... Somi was struggling with his first serve but managd to held his serve ... He again broke Chiudinelli's serve in 9th game to won first set ... Chiudinelli broke Somi's serve in first game of second set ... Somi had break point in 4th game but couldn't manage to convert it, he broke Chiudinelli's serve in 8th game to make it 4-all ... Set went in to tie-break ... In tie-break Somi didn't give chance to his Swiss opponent to complete his win in straight sets.

This time Lee is in bottom draw with Bryans and Mahesh is in top draw with Nestor and Zimo ... But before that Lee and Lukas can face tricky second round opponents Mardy Fish and Mark Knowles ... Otherhand Mahesh and Max can meet American pair John Isner and Sam Querrey.

Rohan is back with Aisam and they r playing Ram and Reynolds in first round.

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At $35+H Karshi Challenger, Uzbekistan

[Q1] (7) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,440) vs Arsen Asanov (UZB,917)
[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND,1163) vs (WC) Akmal Isakov (UZB,UNR)

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