Saturday, January 29, 2011

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2011, Melbourne, Australia

Men's Doubles Final
[F] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 36 46

In first game of the match our pair had 3 break point chances at 0-40 but they failed to convert it ... After that Bryans managed to hold their serve easily and they managed to keep pressure on Lee and Mahesh's serve ... They take crucial break on Lee's serve in 6th game and that was enough to won first set for Bryans ... In second set also Bryans managed to hold their serves easily and keeping pressure on Indians ... Take crucial break on Mahesh's serve in 9th game due to error of judgements from Lee and Mahesh ... Then also lucky break of net cord on break point for Bryans ... In 10th game on Bob's serve our pair showed spirited effort ... Mahesh hit 2 superb backhand down the line winner and created break point chance at 30-40 ... But then Bob hit moster services to won game and match.

Our pair looked lot better than Chennai open ... If they continue to play more together then they r having definitely chance of capturing few more grandslam titles.
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At Cambodia F1 Futures, Phnom Penh

[SF] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,387) bt (3) Toshihide Matsui (JPN,436) 76(5) 63

[F] (1) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,387) vs (4) Danai Udomchoke (THA,458)

Doubles
[F] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) l (3) UDOMCHOKE (THA)/ WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) 46 46

Good win by Vishnu to reached in the final ... In the final he is facing Danai, who is playing top 150 tennis this week as he didn't loose more than 4 games in any match.
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At Davis Cup 2011,

Expected team is announced for our away Davis cup world group match against defending champions Serbia from 14th to 16th March.


Karan and Vishnu r added in the team as reserves.

Davis Cup team - S.P. Misra (non-playing captain), Leader Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, Somdev Devvarman, Rohan Bopanna.

Reserves - Karan Rastogi and Vishnu Vardhan.

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