Monday, June 13, 2011

Tennis News
At Wimbledon 2011, London, Great Britain

Doubles Qualifying
[Q1] (6) Brian Battistone (USA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l David Rice (GBR)/ Sean Thornley (GBR) 26 46

Expected that match against local British pair was tough but still I was hoping Purav and Brian will take care ... But they lost the first set easily ... In second set also British pair take a break and won match comfortably.
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At €694,250 Aegon Championships, London, Great Britain

[F] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 76(2) 67(4) 6-10

Both pairs were knowing eachother's game as they played so many matches ... Still Mahesh and Lee were better team on the court in the first set ... Mahesh and Lee had 7 break point chances and they converted 2, other hand Bryans converted 2 of 2 ... But in tie-break our pair dominated after 1-all and won next 5 pts to give themselves 5 set points converted 2nd to won the first set ... In the second set Lee saved 2 break points in 1st game and then our pair take break on Bryans in 6th game ... But poor serving for Mahesh gave them break back on next game ... In tie-break Bryans take mini-break on 5th point and that was enough to won the second set tie-break ... In super tie-break our pair take early mini-break in 4th point but Bryans fought back taking double mini-break in 10th and 11th pts ... They again take mini-break point on 14th point to won STB comfortably ... Our pair missed a chance of upsetting Bryans.
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At $618K Eastbourne International, Great Britain

[Q2] (7) Sania Mirza (IND,58) bt Anna Tatishvili (GEO,118) 62 36 63

[Q3] (7) Sania Mirza (IND,58) vs Tamira Paszek (AUT,80)

Sania started breaking Anna in 2nd game converting 4th break point ... Anna immediately broke Sania in 3rd to bring the set back on the serve ... Sania broke Anna in 6th game converting 2nd break point and after holding her serve in 7th Sania again broke Anna in 8th game, this time also converting 2nd break point, to won the first set ... In the second set Sania got broken in 3rd game ... Anna again broke Sania in 7th game to take 2-5 lead ... Sania broke back in 8th game but Anna broke Sania again in 9th game while she was serving to remained in the set ... In the third set Sania wasted 3 break points in 5th game but Sania broke Anna in 7th game to take crucialk break ... And after holding her serve Sania again broke Anna to won this match.

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