Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Tennis News
At French Open 2011, Roland Garros, France

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,66) l Ivan Ljubicic (CRO,37) 46 36 46

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,72) vs (12) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL,13)

Doubles
[R1] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Vera Dushevina (RUS)/ Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 76(2) 62

[R2] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs Kristina Barrois (GER)/ Johanna Larsson (SWE)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (5) Jie Zheng (CHN)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Petra Kvitova (CZE)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)
[R1] (7) Iveta Benesova (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Aravane Rezai (FRA)/ Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)

Bad match played by Sommy ... He was making numerous unforced errors and experienced player like Ljubicic take full advantage of it ... In 1st game Sommy created 2 break point cances but failed to convert ... But Sommy broke Ljubicic's service in 3rd game ... In 8th game Sommy was leading 4-3 and 40-0 still he managed to lose his serve and Ljubicic's again broke him in 10th game to won first set ... In the second set Ljubicic take crucial break in 8th game to won it ... Ljubicic broke Sommy's serve in 1st game and that break was enough for Ljubicic to won set ... Ljubicic won this match in 2 hrs and 2 mins ... Sommy failed to create any break point chances after 4 chances he created in first 2 service games of Ljubicic.

Sania and Elena started positively taking 3-1 lead with early break but Vera and Ekaterina fought back taking double break to lead 3-4 ... But after that both pair failed to hold their servers until 6-all ... Sania and Elena dominated tie-break to win it easily ... In second set Sania and Elena take control from the start with breaking Russian's serve ... They again broke them in 7h game to win second set easily ... In the second round Sania is facing Kristina Barrois again with her Swedish partner Johanna Larsson.

Mixed doubles draw is out ... As Cara not participating so Lee is playing with different partner ... Sania and Rohan r playing together may be they r starting playing together in preparation for 2012 London Olympics ... If Lee-Iveta and Rohan-Sania wins first round match then they can face each-other in the second round.

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At $35K+H Alessandria Challenger, Italy

[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Sadik Kadir (AUS) bt Adrian Ungur (ROU)/ Lovro Zovko (CRO) 63 62

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

Purav and Sadik started with very comfortable win in the first round but next having tricky match against Argentine pair on the clay.

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