Tennis News
At Australian Open 2011, Melbourne, Australia

Doubles
[R3] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt (13) Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Tommy Robredo (ESP) 64 46 64
[R3] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l (8) Michael Llodra (FRA)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 63 67(6) 67(3)

[QF] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs (8) Michael Llodra (FRA)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

Tough win for Lee and Mahesh ... In this match Lee was struggling to hold his serve ... In third set he didn't hold his serve once and 4 times his serve was broken in the match ... Other hand Tommy Robredo was also facing same problem ... Our pair won first set with a single break ... In second set Spaniards take crucial break in 9th game on Lee's serve ... In third set Lee lost his serve in 3rd game but they immediately broke Granollers serve to make it 2-all ... In 6th game they broke Robredo's serve but in next game Lee again failed to hold ... At 5-4 our pair again broke Robredo's serve to won match.

Rohan and Aisam were unlucky to lose against 8th seed Zimo and Llodra ... In complete match they didn't lose their single service games in the match and most of the part they were better pair on the court ... After winning first set a single break, our pair was on the roll ... But Llodra and Zimo used their all experience in both tie-breaks to make result in their favor ... Now Lee and Mahesh need to break their jinx of losing against Zimo and his partner.
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At Cambodia F1 Futures, Phnom Penh

[Q2] (3) Divij Sharan (IND,1017) bt (15) Araik Arutunyan (RUS,1591) 61 60
[Q2] (9) Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,1169) bt (4) Luca Margaroli (SUI,1070) 63 75
[Q2] Christopher Marquis (IND,1704) l (6) Elbert Sie (INA,1146) 06 16
[Q2] (16) Ashutosh Singh (IND,1676) bt (7) Abhijeet Tiwari (IND,1146) 64 75

[R1] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,387) vs (WC) Kenny Bun (CAM,1516)
[R1] (5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,525) vs (Q) Divij Sharan (IND,1017)
[R1] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,545) vs Bumpei Sato (JPN,837)
[R1] (6) Rohan Gajjar (IND,535) vs Vivek Shokeen (IND,983)
[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND,800) vs (4) Danai Udomchoke (THA,458)
[R1] (Q) Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,1169) vs (8) Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (THA,551)
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) vs (Q) David Agung Susanto (INA,UNR)
[R1] (Q) Ashutosh Singh (IND,1676) vs Kirati Siributwong (THA,978)

Doubles
[R1] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) vs SIE (INA)/ VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND)
[R1] GAJJAR (IND)/ MALIK (IND) vs ISOBE (JPN)/ TRIJATI (INA)
[R1] (4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) vs PRASHANTH (IND)/ SINGH (IND)

Good win by Kaza over higher ranked Swiss player ... Ashutosh also qualified with win over Tiwari.

Tough draw for Sharan as he is facing Yuki in first round ... Another all Indian match Gajjar is facing Shokeen ... Vijayant Malik having tough match against Udonchoke ... In doubles our all pairs r in same top draw.
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At $10K Turkey F3 Futures, Antalya

[Q2] (14) Akash Wagh (IND,1206) vs Sardor Pulatov (UZB,UNR)
[Q2] (16) Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND,1409) bt Igor Karpov (RUS,UNR) 46 60 62

After first set hiccup easy last 2 sets for Srirambalaji.