Friday, May 27, 2011

Tennis News
At French Open 2011, Roland Garros, France

Doubles
[R2] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Kristina Barrois (GER)/ Johanna Larsson (SWE) 76(4) 63
[R2] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Maximo Gonzalez (ARG)/ Kei Nishikori (JPN) 67(4) 63 64

[R3] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Andrey Golubev (KAZ)/ Denis Istomin (UZB)

Sania and Elena started positively with breaking opponents serve in 1st game ... They take another break in 5th game to lead 4-1 but sudden lost of concentration cost them to lose next 4 games ... But they played excellent tie-break to take first set ... In the second set also Sania and Elena take early break in 2nd game to take early lead ... They again exchanged breaks in 5th and 6th games to maintained their one break lead ... Sania and Elena saved break points in 9th game before winning it ... They r in the third round.

Rohan and Aisam take a break in 6th game to lead 4-2 but immediately in next they failed to hold serve to brought the set on serve ... In tie-break with 1 mini-break they lost the first set ... In the second set Rohan and Aisam take early break in 1st game to lead ... In 8th game our pair saved 2 break points from 15-40 to hold their serve and immediately broke opponent's serve in 9th game to won this set with double breaks ... And our pair also won decider with a single break to moved into the third round ... So good win after slow start ... Next they r facing another Asian pair, Golubev and Istomin.

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