Thursday, March 10, 2011

Tennis News
At $4.5M Indian Wells Open,

[Q2] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,84) bt Greg Jones (AUS,281) 62 64
[Q2] (ALT) Rohan Bopanna (IND,629) bt (1) Daniel Brands (GER,80) 76(5) 76(4)

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,84) vs Adrian Mannarino (FRA,59)
[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,629) vs (WC) Bernard Tomic (AUS,187)


[R1] (WC) Sania Mirza (IND,107) bt Romina Oprandi (ITA,83) 2-1 RETD

[R2] (WC) Sania Mirza (IND,107) vs (25) Dominica Cibulkova (SVK,27)

Rohan scored superb upset win over top-80 player to qualify for main-draw ... In first set both players didn't give a single break point opportunity ... In tie-break Bops lost first point on his serve but immediately he take back mini-break on next point ... Crucial mini-break came on 10th point which helped Rohan to won first set in 40 mins ... Second set also went like first set ... Both players again didn't face a single break point but in tie-break Somi take early mini-breaks to lead 5-1 and kept that lead intact to win second set in 40 mins to qualify for his first Masters main-draw.

Somdev scored comfortably repeat his win over Greg Jones ... In first set he broke Jones service twice and in second set he broke once to complete easy win.

Good to see Sania receiving lucky break to moved into second round without losing sweat ... First time we r seeing our 3 singles players in Masters series main-draw.
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At $35K Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (4) Dominik Meffert (GER)/ Simon Stadler (GER) 76(5) 26 5-10

In doubles also Vishnu lost against Meffert with Divij after winning first set.
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At $10K Turkey F8 Futures, Antalya

[R1] Rohan GAJJAR (IND,538) bt (WC) Tuna ALTUNA (TUR,1102) 64 61

[R2] Rohan GAJJAR (IND,538) vs (7) Alessandro GIANNESSI (ITA,494)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA) l (4) Ivan BJELICA (SRB)/ Tihomir GROZDANOV (BUL) 36 57

Expected victory in singles for Rohan ... Next he is facing 7th seed Italian.

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