Friday, April 08, 2011

Tennis News
At $442.5K US Men's Clay Court Championship, Miami, Florida, USA

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,71) l (3) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP,27) 46 16

Garcia-Lopez started well and kept pressure on Sommy's serve ... In second game Sommy saved 3 break points before holding the serve but Garcia-Lopez broke him in 4th game to take 1-4 lead ... Sommy fought back breaking Garcia-Lopez in 7th game to make it 3-4 ... Garcia-Lopez take crucial break in 10th game to won first set from 40-0 ... In the second set Garcia-Lopez broke Somi in 2nd and 4th games to lead 4-0 ... Sommy broke him in 5th game but again Garcia-Lopez broke him in 6th game and then hold to won this match ... Sommy need to learn few more tricks of playing on the clay like sliding while returning shots but still work in progress.
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At $721K Family Circle Cup, Charleston, USA

[PQF] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,90) bt (WC) Sabine Lisicki (GER,182) 64 64

[QF] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,90) vs (11) Shuai Peng (CHN,30)

Sania started well against 2009 champion German Sabine Lisicki ... She was up double breaks in 5th and 7th games before Sabine broke her serve at 5-2 but one break cushion was enough to won first for Sania ... In the second set Sania broke Sabine's serve on luv in 1st game but immediately lost her serve in next ... Again Sania broke her in 3rd game on luv but this time also Sabine broke her in 6th game to make it 3-all ... Both players again exchanged breaks in next 2 games to 4-all ... Then in 9th game Sania take crucial break on Sabine's serve, this was 4th service break for Sania in this set and then hold to complete creditable victory.

Next Sania is facing Wr #30 Shuai Peng for place in semis.

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