Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Tennis News
At French Open 2011, Roland Garros, France

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (5) Jie Zheng (CHN)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Petra Kvitova (CZE)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) 67(3) 60 10-8
[R1] (7) Iveta Benesova (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Aravane Rezai (FRA)/ Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 63 61

Contrasting wins for Lee and Mahesh in mixed doubles ... Lee and Iveta scored very win over Rezai and Dimitrov losing only 4 games ... But other hand 5th seed Mahesh and Jie struggled against European pair ... They won second set without losing a game after losing first set in tie-break ... Mahesh and Jie needed to fight till end to won super tie-break.
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At $35K+H Alessandria Challenger, Italy (clay)

[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) l Diego Junqueira (ARG)/ Andres Molteni (ARG) 26 36

I expected tough match for Purav and Sadik against South Americans and it proved more than that ... Argentine pair defeated 4ht seed pair quite easily.

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