Tennis News
At $850K Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,532) bt (WC) Yew-Ming Si (MAS,UNR) 62 60

Yuki lost his first service game and was down 0-2 but after that he won next 12 games to crushed unranked local player in 46 minutes to scored his first ATP maindraw win ... Happy to see he managed to take advantage of weak opponent ... Next he will face winner between WR #11 David Ferrer and his nemesis from junior level Australian Bernard Tomic.
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At $551K PTT Thailand Open, Bangkok

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l Daniel Brands (GER)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) 67(5) 76(5) 4-10

Shocking defeat for our formidable pair against rookie pair ... ry bad preparation for CWG 2010, though as we know they raise their game on different level when playing for nation.

Brands and Dodig kept pressure on our seasoned pair from the start ... After winning first set in tie-break in second set they had couple of break points on Mahesh's serve in 9th game but Mahesh managed to save them and in tie-break our pair fought back from 3-5 down to won it ... But in super tie-break Brands and Dodig proved too strong for this veteran pair.

Frankly speaking Brands and Dodig outplayed our pair winning 91 pts to 80 pts ... They had 12 break point chances and converted 1, other hand our pair had 5 and converted 1 ... Aces also Brands and Dodig hit more, 11 aces in comparison of our pair his 6 aces.
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At $50K Napoli Challenger, Italy

[R1] (3) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ David Martin (USA) bt (WC) Enrico Fioravante (ITA)/ Filip Krajinovic (SRB) 76(3) 75

Very tight win for Harsh and David Martin against local Italian wild-card pair to moved into quarters.