Tennis News
At Davis Cup World Group Play-Off 2010, Chennai, India

India vs Brazil 1-2

Day 2
[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Marcelo Melo (BRA)/ Bruno Soares (BRA) 64 76(5) 61

Lee and Mahesh started with bang breaking both Brazilians to take 4-0 lead but Brazilian fought back breaking Mahesh's serve ... Still our pair managed to keep one break advantage to won first set ... Second set closely fought as Brazilians raised their game ... Also Lee and Mahesh were struggled with their serves ... Lee saved 2 set points in 10th game and in 12th game Mahesh saved 2 sets points on his serve ... In tie-break Brazilian pair was up 3-0 and 4-1 with mini-break on Lee's serve but our pair managed fought back to make it 5-all and then take another mini-break to won second set ... In third set Lee produced energetic performance to broke Marcelo Melo's serve twice to won third set comfortably and gave India important point in Davis cup.

This is Lee and Mahesh's 24th consecutive victory in Daqvis cup ... Still herculean task for our players to win reverse singles on the final day.
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At $220K Guangzhou International Women's Open, Guangzhou, China

[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Edina Gallovits (ROU) bt Olga Savchuk (UKR)/ Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) 63 60

[F] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Edina Gallovits (ROU) vs Xinyun Han (CHN)/ Wanting Liu (CHN)

Sania and Edina scored very dominating and crushing victory over Savchuk and Tanasugam to moved into the final ... In the final they r facing local unseeded pair, who also reached in the final creating upset like Sania and Edina.
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At $35K+H Bangkok-2 Challenger, Thailand

[Q1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,526) bt (WC) Pin Mahatharvorn (THA,UNR) 61 62

[Q2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,526) vs (7) Ze Zhang (CHN,296)

Expected comfortable win but now big test against top-300 Choinese player.
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At $10K USA F23, Claremont, CA

[SF] Karunuday Singh (IND,1041) l Devin Britton (USA,1107) 36 36

Karunuday's good run ended in semis but very good performance to reached in US futures semis.