Sunday, August 07, 2011

Tennis News
At $2.43M Rogers Cup, Montréal, Canada

[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bye
[R1] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)bye

As seeded both pairs having bye in the first round ... Both pairs in top-draw and can meet in the semis but before that both having tricky matches.
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At 2.05M Rogers Cup, Toronto, Canada

[Q2] (11) Sania Mirza (IND,64) l Kathrin Woerle (GER,140) 76(5) 57 36

Doubles
[R1] (5) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs Sara Errani (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA)

Match started usual Sania's style ... Despite struggling with serve Sania take 3-1 lead buth then she lost her serve twice to found 3-5 down ... Sania fought back in the match to make it 5-all and then take the set in tie-break ... In tie-break Sania take 4-0 lead but Kathrin fought back to make it 5-4 but Sania kept mini-break to won the first set ... In the second set take 1st break, she broke Sania in 4th game to lead 1-3 but Sania immediately broke her in next game to bring the set back on serve ... Kathrin take crucial break in 12th game when Sania was serving for the staying in the set ... With that break Kathrin take the match in the third set ... In the third set Sania broke Woerle in 1st game and take 3-1 lead ... But from here Sania lost next 5 games to lose this match so another match which Sania lost after in a winning position.
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At$35K+H Samarkand Challenger, Uzbekistan (clay)

[Q1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND,808) bye
[Q2] (2) Divij Sharan (IND,808) bt Sergey Shipilov (UZB,UNR) 76(1) 62
[Q3] (2) Divij Sharan (IND,808) bt (6) Jakhongir Jalalov (UZB,1490) 61 61

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,334) vs Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS,384)
[R1] (Q) Divij Sharan (IND,808) vs (8) Ivo Klec (SVK,246)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Ivo Klec (SVK)/ Marek Semjan (SVK)

Happy to see Divij taking full advantage of weak qualifying draw and earning 3 ranking points ... Also he is back with Vishnu in doubles.

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