Tennis News
At $3.645M Sony Ericsson Open, Miami, Florida, USA
Doubles Final
(3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (2) Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) 67(5) 62 10-5
This was Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes's first title together at the Sony Ericsson Open ... Also Lee is now a two-time reigning champion after winning the event last year with Lukas Dlouhy and Bhupathi earned his first career title as last year he was runner-up with Mirnyi ... This win moves the Indians ahead of World No. 1 Bob and Mike Bryan for first place in race for the 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.
In the first set both pairs started tentatively ... Both pairs saved many break points in the beginning ... Indians take crucial break in 11th game but Mahesh failed to hold his serve to won the set and in tie-break Nestor and Mirnyi lead from the start to win it ... In second set Lee and Mahesh take first break in 4th game when Nestor double faulted to take 3-1 lead then they again broke Nestor in 8th game to won second set easily ... In super tie-break they dominated from the start to win it comfortably to grab this Masters title.
With this win Lee and Hesh also decided to play together until end of clay season ... :-)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------At $3.645M Sony Ericsson Open, Miami, Florida, USA
(3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (2) Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) 67(5) 62 10-5
This was Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes's first title together at the Sony Ericsson Open ... Also Lee is now a two-time reigning champion after winning the event last year with Lukas Dlouhy and Bhupathi earned his first career title as last year he was runner-up with Mirnyi ... This win moves the Indians ahead of World No. 1 Bob and Mike Bryan for first place in race for the 2011 Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.
In the first set both pairs started tentatively ... Both pairs saved many break points in the beginning ... Indians take crucial break in 11th game but Mahesh failed to hold his serve to won the set and in tie-break Nestor and Mirnyi lead from the start to win it ... In second set Lee and Mahesh take first break in 4th game when Nestor double faulted to take 3-1 lead then they again broke Nestor in 8th game to won second set easily ... In super tie-break they dominated from the start to win it comfortably to grab this Masters title.
With this win Lee and Hesh also decided to play together until end of clay season ... :-)
At $442.5K US Men's Clay Court Championship, Miami, Florida, USA
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,73) vs Robert Kendrick (USA,82)
Somdev having winnable first match.
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At $721K Family Circle Cup, Charleston, USA
[Q1] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,99) bt Johanna Konta (AUS,248) 62 36 63
[Q2] (2) Sania Mirza (IND,99) vs (9) Olga Savchuk (UKR,144)
Sania started strongly breaking Johanna's serve in first game ... Then she again broke her in 7th game to won the first set easily ... In second set Johanna broke Sania 4th game but Sania broke back in 7th game ... Again Johanna broke her in 8th game to won first set ... In decider Sania take break in 4th game and that was enough to won set and match.
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At $35K St Brieuc Challenger, France
[SF] (4) Purav RAJA (IND)/ Olivier CHARROIN (FRA) l (WC) Gregoire Burquier (FRA)/ Romain Jouan (FRA) 46 46
Purav and Olivier lost against wild-card pair in straight sets.
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