Tennis News
At Australian Open 2011, Melbourne, Australia

[Q3] (24) Sania Mirza (IND,145) bt Stephanie Dubois (CAN,164) 62 63

[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,110) vs Tommy Robredo (ESP,51)
[R1] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,145) vs (11) Justine Henin (BEL,13)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Ivo Karlovic (CRO)/ Dusan Vemic (SRB)
[R1] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ vs Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Franco Ferreiro (BRA)/ Andre Sa (BRA)
[R1] Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) vs (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Renata Voracova (CZE) vs (1) sela Dulko (ARG)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA)

Surprisingly dominating win for Sania against player with whom she struggled in the past ... Sania was in control of the match from start ... Up with early break she lost her serve to lead 3-2 but won next 3 games to win first set ... In second set she take 4-1 before wrapping the match.

After tough 2nd qualifying match this was very good news that Sania scored easy victory against tough Canadian, with whom she lost before, Stephanie Dubois ... But very cruel draw for Sania in singles and doubles ... In singles she is facing former WR #1 Justine Henin and in doubles she with her Czech partner facing WR #1 doubles team.

In men's doubles, Lee and Mahesh r third seeds ... They r facing big server opponents, Croatian Ivo Karlovic and Serbian Dusan Vemic ... Rohan and Aisam r 10th seeds, they r also bottom draw with Lee and Mahesh and can face them in quarters ... In first round Rohan and Aisam r facing Brazilian pair Franco Ferreiro and Andre Sa.
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At $10K Turkey F2 Futures, Antalya

[Q1] Akash Wagh (IND,1206) bt Oleksiy Odazhyu (UKR,UNR) 63 62
[Q1] Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND,1409) bt Antun Pehar (CRO,UNR) 67(6) 64 63

[Q2] Akash Wagh (IND,1206) vs George Von Massow (GER,UNR)
[Q2] Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND,1409) vs Toni Androic (CRO,831)

Last week both playewrs failed to win single ranking point ... Hopefully this week they do better, 2nd week qualifying begins.

Akash had easy match with unranked Ukrainian player but Srirambalaji had tough time against unraked Croatian ... He scored comeback win but in second qualifying he is facing another Croatian, who is top 850 player.