Monday, May 30, 2011

Tennis News
At French Open 2011, Roland Garros, France

Doubles
[R3] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Andrey Golubev (KAZ)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) 63 75

[QF] (7) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt (1) Gisela Dulko (ARG)/ Flavia Pennetta (ITA) 60 75

[QF] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (7) Iveta Benesova (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (1) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 67(3) 36

What a win scored by Sania and Elena over WR #1 pair, Dulko and Pennetta ... In the first set Sania and Elena broke WR #1 pair's serve thrice to won it in only 22 mins ... In second set Dulko and Pennetta take a break in 1st game breaking Elena's serve but our pair fought back breaking them in 4th and 6th to take 4-2 lead ... But WR #1 pair fought back after down 2-5 ... They won next 3 games breaking Elena's serve in 9th game while she was serving for the match to make it 5-all ... Then Sania made crucial hold of her serve and after that our pair break WR #1 pair's serve to scored memorable victory ... With this win Sania and Elena entered into the semi-final, this is Sania's first semi-final in womens doubles.

Rohan and Aisam started with a serve ... Crucial break came in 6th game and that break was enough to won the first set for Rohan and Aisam ... In the second set both pairs were holding their serves with ease until 9th game ... Rohan and Aisam saved 3 set points in 10th game before holding their serve and then immediately broke opponent to take lead with service break ... Then hold their serve comfortably to book their quarter-final match with top-seed Bryans.

But in mixed doubles quarter-final Lee and Iveta lost against top-seed Zimo and Srebotnik in straight sets.

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At $75K+H Nottingham Challenger, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,66) vs Marinko Matosevic (AUS,146)

Doubles
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Rik De Voest (RSA) vs Jamie Delgado (GBR)/ Edouardo Roger-Vasselin (FRA)
[R1] Treat Conrad Huey (PHI)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Dustin Brown (GER)/ Martin Emmrich (GER)

Good decision by Sommy of playing at Nottingham to getting used to grass court before Queens and Wimbledon.

In doubles Sommy is playing with Rik De Voest ... Purav and Treat r also playing, if both pairs win their first round matches then they can face eachother in quarters.

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