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At $ 398,250 Aircel Chennai Open, India

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,108) vs (Q) David Goffin (BEL,229)
[R1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,505) vs (Q) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,159)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Frank Dancevic (CAN)/ Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 36 76(8) 10-4
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) l Robin Haase (NED)/ David Martin (USA) 75 26 8-10

[QF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Philipp Marx (GER)/ Ken Skupski (GBR)

Match report - Lee/ Hesh vs Dancevic/ Wawrinka
Our pair started tentatively, both players made errors but Mahesh was struggling more in the opening set ... In this set no old magic by Lee and Mahesh, Lee's regular net game was missing ... Other hand Dancevic and Wawrinka played perfect game on their own service games with huge and big serves ... They take crucial break in 2nd game on Mahesh's serve ... Though our pair saved 2 set points on Lee's serve in 8th game but in next game Dancevic hold his serve on luv to won first set in 31 mins.

It's 2-all in second set ... Our pair is struggling on their serves, other hand Dancevic and Wawrinka holding their serves easily ... While looking this match our pair's energy level looking very low, they r struggling to cover net or running behind to return lob ... Saved 3 break points to hold serve and lead 3-2.

Now it is 3-all and in second set Dancevic/ Wawrinka still doesn't lose a single point on their serve ... Lee hold @15 with couple of easy smashes by both players to lead 4-3 ... At last Lee managed to win a point on Wawrinka's serve with superb crosscourt backhand service return, immediately Mahesh hit down the line backhand service return to gave 0-30 lead but Wawrinka hit powerful first serves (with 2 aces) to make it 4-all.

At last our pair hold their serve on luv, so Mahesh gives 5-4 lead ... Again powerful serving from Dancevic to hold @15, 5-all ... Lee also hold @15 to lead 6-5, frankly Lee is looking very tired - may be he is playing with some minor injury or still not match fit due to his bollywood assignments ... Wawrinka hold @15 to make it 6-all.

Tie-break time
Mini-break with lob from Dancevic on Mahesh's serve and Dancevic win next 2 points on his serve to lead 3-0 ... Lee win next 2 points on his serve to make it 2-3 ... Wawrinka win next 2 points on his serve with powerful services to lead 5-2 ... Mahesh win next point on his serve but Dancevic gave another mini-break with down-the-line backhand to give 3 match points, 6-3 ... But Dancevic misses his first serve on next 2 points and our experienced pair take 2 mini-breaks back and then Lee served ace to make it 6-all ... Wawrinka missed easy half volley to give first set point to Lee and Mahesh but Wawrinka hit an ace to make it 7-all ... Then Mahesh hit out to gave them 4th match point, again Lee played excellent crosscourt volley to make it 8-all ... Then Mahesh played excellent net game giving another set point with superb backhand angled volley ... AND Dancevic again missed first serve and made error on volley to gave Indian second set.

Super tie-break time
Suddenly Dancevic struggling with his serve, he double faulted to give Indians mini-break on first point ... Wawrinka hit out after good net game by Lee to give 2-0 lead ... Another excellent point by Indian pair which ended with Lee's smash 3-0 ... Wawrinka won point on wide serve and then Lee hit super forhand down-the-line to gave double mini-break, 4-1 ... Lee won next 2 points easily on his serve in that he hit an ace, 6-1 ... YES, first chest bump after another mini-break, 7-1, in that one superb volley by Lee that gave chance to Mahesh hit powerful forhand ... Dancevic managed to win point on his serve, 7-2 ... Mahesh hit big serve to make it 8-2 but lost next point on his serve, 8-3 ... Wawrinka win point on his serve to make it 8-4 ... Another excellent volley by Lee to gave 5 match points and this time jump chest bump , 9-4 ... Lee hit powerful serve to complete awesome comeback victory, 10-4.

From late in the second set Lee and Mahesh started to comeback in rhythm ... Dancevic's struggled on his serve in tie-breaks immensely helped our pair, they take full advantage of it ... Other hand Lee and Hesh serving was improve in tie-breaks ... Match ended at 1:15am.

Somdev and Sanam fought well in first set before converting break in 12th game on 3rd set point but from second set Hasse and Martin played excellent game ... They won second set easily and in super tie-break they made come back after down 5-7 ... They won 5 points from last 6 points to won this match.

In singles opponents r decided of Yuki and Buji ... Buji having winnable match against Belgian player but Yuki having tricky match against Kudryavtsev.