Thursday, May 05, 2011

Tennis News
At At €3.5M Madrid Masters, Spain

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Nadia Petrova (RUS)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 63 75
[R2] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (WC) Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP)/ Santiago Ventura (ESP) 63 60

[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs (2) Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)

Rohan and Aisam take early break on Spanish pair in 4th game and that lone break was enough to won the first set ... The second set was one-sided affair ... Our pair broke Spanish pair in 1st, 3rd and 5th games to won it comfortably to book their place in quarters.

Sania and Elena started with breaking Nadia's serve in 1st game ... But Nadia and Anastasia fought back breaking Sania's serve in 4th game ... They again broke Nadia in 5th game to take lead and 3rd time broke Nadia's serve in 9th game to won the first set ... In the second set both pairs hold their serves until 4-all ... Nadia and Anastasia broke Elena in 9th game but while serving for the set Anastasia couldn't hold her serve to make it 5-all ... Sania hold her serve into 11th game and then Sania and Elena broke Nadia's serve to won this match and moved into quarters ... In quarters they r facing 2nd seed pair Peschke and Srebotnik.

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At u-14 Asia-Oceania Final Qualfying, Kutching, Malaysia (WJT boys)

Quarter Final
(5) INDIA bt (6) THAILAND 3-0

Sahil DESHMUKH bt Thanapol CHAINGAM 16 60 60
Garvit BATRA bt Kittinut CHITTIPORNSAN 62 64
Sahil DESHMUKH/ Sumit NAGAL bt Thanapol CHAINGAM/ Nawakarn KHUNJAN 62 64

As expected our boys scored commanding win over Thai boys to qualify for World Group of u-14 World Junior Tennis ... Today again Sunil Yajaman changed combination of the team and again it worked in favor of us ... After losing first set Sahil overpowered Thai opponent winning next 2 without losing a game ... Garvit scored easy win to give us 2-0 winning lead ... In doubles Sahil partnered Sumit to scored another easy victory over Thai pair ... In the semi-final they r facing top-seed Korean side but after following their performance in this tourney I m hoping upset from our kids.

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