Tennis News
At Australian Open 2011, Melbourne, Australia

[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,110) l Tommy Robredo (ESP,51) 67(4) 36 46
[R1] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,145) l (11) Justine Henin (BEL,13) 75 36 16

Match between Sania and Justine was service nightmares for players who was serving ... Both players were struggled to hold their service games ... Both were continuously exchanging break after another ... Sania was up 4-2 but lost next 3 games and was set point down at 4-5 40-30 but Sania saved a set point and then break Justine's serve to make it 5-all ... Holding her serve in next game after saving break point she broke Justin's serve to won first set ... Justin started with breaking Sania's serve in first game to take early lead but Sania broke back in 4th game to make it 2-all ... Immediately Justine broke Sania's serve in 5th game to take lead ... Again she broke Sania's serve in 9th game to won second set ... From second set Justine started to play better tennis ... In third set also Justine started positively breaking Sania's serve in 2nd game to take 3-0 lead ... Again Justine broke Sania's game in 6th game to won decider comfortably.

Today Sania again showed she had game to match with top-25 player but her service games let her down ... Feel sorry to see her struggle with holding her own service games ... In this match also she had big chance of producing memorable upset if her service was good.

As expected baseline battle between Buji and Robredo ... Robredo was serving better and holding with ease still Buji managed to take set in tie-break ... Robredo went up 4-0 with couple of mini-break, Somdev tried to comeback taking one mini-break back but Robredo kept control to win first set ... In second set Tommy broke Somi's serve twice and Somi managed to break back only once to lose this set ... Last set also went like second set where Buji managed to break Tommy's serve once but Tommy broke Buji's serve twice to won set and match in 2 hrs 37 mins ... Somdev didn't play bad match but then he also didn't play great enough to upset consistent Robredo.
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At $10K Turkey F2 Futures, Antalya

[Q3] Akash Wagh (IND,1206) l (6) Ilia Starkov (RUS,759) 26 06
[Q3] Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND,1409) l Kevin Botti (FRA,1116) 46 26

[Q2] Akash Wagh (IND,1206) bt George Von Massow (GER,UNR) 62 64
[Q2] Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND,1409) bt Toni Androic (CRO,831) 76(5) 76(7)

After scoring superb fighting win by Srirambalaji over higher ranked Croatian ... Our both players failed to cross final hurdle of qualifying ... Akash lost cheaply without giving any fight.