Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Tennis News
At €694,250 Aegon Championships, London, Great Britain

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,67) l (Q) Matthew Ebden (AUS,168) 57 36

Somdev missed break point chances in 3rd game and Matthew Ebden take crucial break in 12th game to won the first set ... In the second set Sommy again failed to take advantage of 2 break points in 1st game ... Matthew broke Sommy in 4th game to lead 1-3 but Sommy immediately broke back in next game to bring the set back on serves ... In 7th game Sommy again missed opportunity of breaking Matthew but in next game Matthew take a crucial break ... While serving for the match Matthew saved 3 break points before winning it ... Sommy converted only 1 out of 11 break point opportunities and that tell us the story of this match ... Frankly another disappointing outing for Sommy on the grass ... His struggle against these lower ranked players continues.
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At $220K Aegon Classic, Edgbaston, England

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,58) l Tamira Paszek (AUT,80) 36 64 26

Sania started with the serve ... In 5th game Sania saved 3 break points from 0-40 but Tamira converted 4th to break the serve ... Tamira again broke Sania's serve in 9th game to won the first set ... In the second set Sania take early lead with double brea, 4-1 ... Tamira broke her in 6th game ang again broke Sania in 8th game to make it 4-all ... But again Sania broke Tamira in 9th before holding her serve while serving for the set ... In decider Sania take early break in 3rd game to take 2-1 lead but Tamira immediately broke her in next to make it 2-all ... Then Tamira again broke her in 6th game to take 2-4 lead ... Sania failed to hold her serve in 8th game to give victory to Tamira ... Sania struggled with her serve, she managed around 40% first serve percentage..
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At €750K Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) 75 64

[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Gael Monfils (FRA)/ Dustin Brown (GER)

Our top-seed pair take early break in 3rd game but Aisam lost his serve in 10th game while serving for the set ... Immediately our pair broke opponent's serve and then Rohan hold to won the first set ... In second set our pair started with breaking opponent's serve in the first game and with that break they won the second set and match.

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