Sunday, May 01, 2011

Tennis News
At At €3.5M Madrid Masters, Spain

[Q2] (8) Sania Mirza (IND,76) bt Varvara Lepchenko (USA,82) 63 61

[R1] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,76) vs Elena Vesnina (RUS,46)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bye
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs (8) Iveta Benesova (CZE)/ Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE)

In this match Varvara started breaking Sania's serve in the first game but immediately Sania broke her in 2nd from 40-0 and again in 4th game to take 3-1 lead ... After that both players hold their serves and Sania won the set with a single break lead ... In the second set Sania was toally in control ... She broke Varvara's serve in 1st, 5th and 7th games to won this set authoratively and first time made it to Madrid Masters main-draw ... But she is having tricky draw as Sania is facing her doubles partner Elena Vesnina in the first round.

Sommy is missing this week's action due to minor injury ... Also Lee and Mahesh r missing this Masters as Mahesh is down with high fever.

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At $10K India F5, Chennai

Singles Final
(Q) Patrik ROSENHOLM (SWE,1768) bt (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,340) 6-5 Retd.

Vishnu must be disappointed with losing opportunity of winning third Indian futures title in 3 weeks due to injury ... He retired due to spraining his leg ... But very exciting 3 weeks for Vishnu.

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