Monday, March 14, 2011

Tennis News
At $4.5M Indian Wells Open,

[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Simon Aspelin (SWE)/ Julian Knowle (AUT) 75 64

[R2] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)

Winning start for Mahesh and Leander in the first round of Indian Wells Masters ... In both set they lost their service game once but managed to broke opponent's service games twice ... Next they r facing Rohan and Aisam.
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At $15K India F1 Futures, Mumbai

Singless First Round
(1) Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt (WC) Arjun KADHE (IND) 61 61
(Q) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) l Nicolas REISSIG (AUT) 46 36
Rupesh ROY (IND) bt Tristan-Samuel WEISSBORN (AUT) 76(3) 61
(6) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt (Q) Kenny BUN (CAM) 61 61

(Q) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) l (4) Gero KRETSCHMER (GER) 57 63 16
(Q) Ashutosh SINGH (IND) bt (LL) Akash WAGH (IND) 63 36 63
(Q) Divij SHARAN (IND) bt (WC) Lakshit SOOD (IND) 63 76(6)
Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt (5) Gerald MELZER (AUT) 62 62

(7) Roko KARANUSIC (CRO) bt Kirati SIRIBUTWONG (THA) 61 61
(PR) Sunil-Kumar SIPAEYA (IND) bt (Q) Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 64 75
James FEAVER (GBR) bt (Q) Maximilian NEUCHRIST (AUT) 61 67(6) 61
(3) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (WC) Suresh KRISHNA (IND) 64 63

(8) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) l Kittiphong WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) 36 16
(WC) Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) bt (Q) Perakiat SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 63 36 76(6)
Vijayant MALIK (IND) l Jaan-Frederik BRUNKEN (GER) 57 46
N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) l (2) Adam KELLNER (HUN) 63 57 16

Doubles
PRASHANTH (IND)/ ROY (IND) l (1) KRETSCHMER (GER)/ SATSCHKO (GER) 16 67(6)
MARQUIS (IND)/ WAGH (IND) bt MELZER (AUT) / REISSIG (AUT) 26 75 10-6
(4) RASTOGI (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt MALIK (IND)/ NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 76(3) 75
NEUCHRIST (AUT)/ WEISSBORN (AUT) bt FEAVER (GBR)/ KPULUN (SLE) 64 64
SHOKEEN (IND)/ SIPAEYA (IND) bt (WC) SOOD (IND)/ SOOD (IND) 76(5) 76(3)
BHAMBRI (IND)/ GAJJAR (IND) bt (3) KARANUSIC (CRO)/ WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) 46 61 10-4
(WC) KADHE (IND)/ KRISHNA (IND) bt PERANAMALLUR (IND)/ TIWARI (IND) 61 67(1) 10-8
(2) RAJA (IND)/ SHARAN (IND) bt SIRIBUTWONG (THA)/ SIRILUETHAIWATTANA (THA) 64 62

Again Karan and Yuki r in same draw with Rupesh ... Vijay Sundar is also facing 2nd seed Kellner in the first round.

Good win over higher ranked Thai by Srirambalaji ... Rohan really scored impressive win over Jurgen Melzer's younger brother losing only 4 games ... Vijay Sundar had opportunity of finishing match in straight sets but failed.

In doubles also young Arjun Kadhe scored good upset win with Suresh Krishna against Vignesh and Tiwari ... Young Sood brothers gave remarkable fight to experienced Sunil Kumar and Vivek Shokeen ... Can these Soods become Indian version of Bryans? Time will tell.

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