Tennis News
At $2.6M Cincinnati Masters, USA
Doubles Final
(3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (4) Michael Llodra (FRA)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 76(4) 76(2)
Mahesh and Lee defeated in-form Llodra and Zimonjic to lift their 3rd title of the season and 2nd title at Cincy Masters ... Before this they won the title 10 yrs ago in 2001.
In the final both pair didn't lose their service game ... Indians saved 3 break points, other hand Llodra and Zimonjic saved 8 on their serves ... In both tie-break Lee and Mahesh take early mini-break to captialise on that ... So good to see they r started to play well before US Open.
Leander Paes - “If you had asked me 10 years ago if we would win here again 10 years later, I would have started laughing that we’d still be playing. It’s a great feeling to come back and win in the summer. We didn’t have so much rhythm in Europe, but we managed to put it together this week. We’ve beat some really big teams and are playing well. For us, it’s a big confidence booster for the US Open, but we still have a lot of work to do there.”
Mahesh Bhupathi - “They are the hottest team and we had to play our best match of the year to beat them,” Bhupathi said. “We served and volleyed great, and played an error free match. When we had chances, we took them.”
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At $553K Winston Salem Open, USA
[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)
[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Andy Ram (ISR)
This week Rohan and Aisam r top-seed at Winston Salem Open ... They r having tricky first round against Dlouhy and Tecau ... Mahesh is also playing with his old partner Mark Knowles to get much required match practice before US Open ... They r having tough first round against former top-5 Israeli pair.
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At $50K Astana-2 Challenger, Kazakhstan
[Q3] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,554) l (3) Michail Elgin (RUS,399)
[R1] (WC) Karan Rastogi (IND,351) l (1) Rainer Schuettler (GER,125) 06 16
Doubles
[R1] (WC) Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ) l Valery Rudnev (RUS)/ Dmitri Sitak (RUS) 26 26
Very disappointing performance by Karan considering his good form ... His struggle against top-150 players continued ... He need to work hard on his overall game to give decent performance against these players ... Also Ranjeet lost in the final qualifying and in doubles Vijayant lost easily with his local partner.
At $2.6M Cincinnati Masters, USA
(3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (4) Michael Llodra (FRA)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 76(4) 76(2)
Mahesh and Lee defeated in-form Llodra and Zimonjic to lift their 3rd title of the season and 2nd title at Cincy Masters ... Before this they won the title 10 yrs ago in 2001.
In the final both pair didn't lose their service game ... Indians saved 3 break points, other hand Llodra and Zimonjic saved 8 on their serves ... In both tie-break Lee and Mahesh take early mini-break to captialise on that ... So good to see they r started to play well before US Open.
Leander Paes - “If you had asked me 10 years ago if we would win here again 10 years later, I would have started laughing that we’d still be playing. It’s a great feeling to come back and win in the summer. We didn’t have so much rhythm in Europe, but we managed to put it together this week. We’ve beat some really big teams and are playing well. For us, it’s a big confidence booster for the US Open, but we still have a lot of work to do there.”
Mahesh Bhupathi - “They are the hottest team and we had to play our best match of the year to beat them,” Bhupathi said. “We served and volleyed great, and played an error free match. When we had chances, we took them.”
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At $553K Winston Salem Open, USA
[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)
[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Andy Ram (ISR)
This week Rohan and Aisam r top-seed at Winston Salem Open ... They r having tricky first round against Dlouhy and Tecau ... Mahesh is also playing with his old partner Mark Knowles to get much required match practice before US Open ... They r having tough first round against former top-5 Israeli pair.
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At $50K Astana-2 Challenger, Kazakhstan
[Q3] (7) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,554) l (3) Michail Elgin (RUS,399)
[R1] (WC) Karan Rastogi (IND,351) l (1) Rainer Schuettler (GER,125) 06 16
Doubles
[R1] (WC) Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Serizhan Yessenbekov (KAZ) l Valery Rudnev (RUS)/ Dmitri Sitak (RUS) 26 26
Very disappointing performance by Karan considering his good form ... His struggle against top-150 players continued ... He need to work hard on his overall game to give decent performance against these players ... Also Ranjeet lost in the final qualifying and in doubles Vijayant lost easily with his local partner.
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