Tennis News
At $4.5M Indian Wells Open,

[R1] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,84) bt Adrian Mannarino (FRA,59) 62 63

[R2] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,84) vs Marcos Baghdatis (CYP,22)

Doubles
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Lucie Hradecka (CZE) 64 61

[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Simon Aspelin (SWE)/ Julian Knowle (AUT)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Eric Butorac (USA)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (AHO)

Somdev scored his first win in ATP Masters beating top-60 Frenchman Adrian Mannarino convincingly ... In first set Somi broke Adrian in 5th and 7th game to win it ... He won 4 games in a row from 2-all ... In second set also Somi broke Adrian in 5th game to take 3-2 and again broke him in 9th game after numerous duece ... Somi converted 3rd match point to win match in 1 hr and 24 mins ... Very dominating performance by Somdev ... Next he is facing Marcos Baghdatis.

Sania also having good start in doubles ... In men's doubles Lee and Mahesh r in same draw with Rohan and Aisam ... They can face eachother in the second round.

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At $10K Turkey F8 Futures, Antalya

[R2] Rohan GAJJAR (IND,538) l (7) Alessandro GIANNESSI (ITA,494) 67(2) 26

So no upset from Rohan ... In 2 weeks he managed 2 wins, now back to Indian futures which r starting from next week.