Monday, February 07, 2011

Tennis News
At €1.45M ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament, Rotterdam, Netherlands

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul_Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs (4) Michael Llodra (FRA)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)
[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Marcel Granollers (ESP) vs Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)

It looks Lee is busy with his Hindi movie assignment and Mahesh is playing one tournament before his marriage with Lara ... He is playing with Spanish partner Marcel Granollers.

Tough first round against Llodra and Zimo, against same pair Rohan and Aisam lost at Australian Open 3rd round.

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At $220K PTT Pattaya Open, Thailand

[R1] (3) Kai-Chen Chang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Noppawan Lertcheewakarn (THA)/ Jessica Moore (AUS)

If she is still struggling with ankle injury then she should skip playing this week to avoid serious injury.
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In new ranking update Somi re-enter into top-100 and after reaching final of SA Open he is now ranked his career best singles ranking, #80.

This week he was in main-draw of Bergamo Challenger but today he decided to withdrawn ... I think it is good decision to take break after last week's heroic.

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At $35K Open EuroEnergie de Quimper, Quimper, France

[Q1] Purav Raja (IND,UNR) bt (WC) Bryan Laurent (FRA,UNR) 61 61
[Q2] Purav Raja (IND,UNR) bt (7) Julien Obry (FRA,633) 46 64 76(4)

[Q3] Purav Raja (IND,UNR) vs (3) Mathieu Rodrigues (FRA,391)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Charles-Antoine Brezac (FRA)/ Vincent Stouff (FRA)

It looks Purav and Huey decided to play more tournaments together ... They r 3 rd seed in this French challenger .. Purav is also in singles final qualifying with upset win over top-650 local player.

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