Tennis News
At Australian Open 2011, Melbourne, Australia

Doubles
[SF] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt (2) Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) 76(5) 46 63

[F] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)

Mixed Doubles
[QF] Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l (2) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) W/O

Lee and Mahesh created history reaching final of Australian Open after 11 yrs and will try to win their first Australian Open doubles title ... In first set both pairs traded couple of breaks ... They were up 6-5 after breaking serve in 11th game but couldn't manage to finish the set ... Then Lee and Mahesh won tie-break 7-5 ... In second set Lee and Mahesh had couple of break point chances but failed to take ... Other hand Nestor and Mirnyi also had couple of break point chances they converted one breaking Lee's serve in 5th game, Lee was up 40-0 before losing his serve, to won second set ... In third set our pair didn't gave a single break point chance and converted one they got in 6th game ... While Mahesh serving for the match our pair converted second match point after duece to move into the final against Bryans.

Mahesh and Rodionova gave walkover in MXD quarter-final ... Hoping no serious injury scare for Mahesh, mostly precautionary before men's double final on Saturday.
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At $50K+H Singapore Challenger,

[R2] (1) Somdev Devvarman (IND,108) bt John Millman (AUS,203) 64 63
[R2] (WC) Karan Rastogi (IND,332) l Dmitry Tursunov (RUS,197) 36 26

[QF] (1) Somdev Devvarman (IND,108) vs (8) Andrej Martin (SVK,177)

Doubles
[R1] Rik DE Voest (RSA)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) bt (4) Flavio Cipolla (ITA)/ Simone Vagnozzi (ITA) 64 63

[QF] Rik DE Voest (RSA)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) bt (WC) Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE) 64 36 10-7
[QF] Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (2) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 67(5) 62 5-10

[SF] Rik DE Voest (RSA)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) vs (2) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

Somi had easy outing ... He scored comfortable win but today also he lost his serve when he was serving for the match at 5-2 ... I think many time we experience this with Buji .. Next he is facing 8th seed Andrej Martin in quarters.

Somi also completed his doubles first round match after match was stopped when he and Rik were leading 3-1 in second set ... They won this and immediately played quarters against Dima and his partner ... Rik and Somi won in super tie-break and will face Ratiwatana twins in the semis, who defeated Treat and Purav.

Dima was tough to handle for Karan as Dima still play game of top-50 type but this was important experience for Karan to his future matches and development.
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At Cambodia F1 Futures, Phnom Penh

[R2] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,387) bt Liang-Chi Huang (TPE,833) 36 64 62
[R2] (5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,525) l Ervand Gasparyan (RUS,867) 36 46
[R2] (6) Rohan Gajjar (IND,535) bt Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,566) 63 64
[R2] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,677) l (8) Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (THA,551) 46 26

[QF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,387) vs Ervand Gasparyan (RUS,867)
[QF] (6) Rohan Gajjar (IND,535) vs (4) Danai Udomchoke (THA,458)

Doubles
[QF] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt GAJJAR (IND)/ MALIK (IND) 61 64
[QF] PRASHANTH (IND)/ SINGH (IND) l GASPARYAN (RUS)/ IVANOV (EST) 46 57

[SF] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) vs GASPARYAN (RUS)/ IVANOV (EST)

Shocking loss of Yuki against Russian Ervand Gasparyan ... I hope Vishnu handles him in quarters as Ervand Gasparyan also eliminated Indian pair with his partner in doubles.

Vishnu scored nice comeback win over talented Liang-Chi Huang ... Rohan also played exceptional well to win in straight sets against similar ranked Japanese player.
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At $10K Turkey F3 Futures, Antalya

[R1] (Q) Akash Wagh (IND,1206) l (Q) Piotr Gadomski (POL,731) 26 26

Doubles
[R1] Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND)/ Akash Wagh (IND) bt Durukan Durmus (TUR)/ Artem Smirnov (UKR) 75 26 10-3

[QF] Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy (IND)/ Akash Wagh (IND) vs (3) Toni Androic (CRO)/ Dino Marcan (CRO)

Akash and Srirambalaji earned their first ranking point of 3 weeks of Turkey futures as they won their doubles first round match ... But not a single ranking point for Akash and Srirambalaji from this 3 weeks of Turkey futures in singles.