Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Tennis News
At $398,250 Chennai Open 2012, India

[R1] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Xavier Malisse (BEL)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) 57 63 10-5
[R1] (3) Leander Peas (IND)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) bt (ALT) Vasek Pospisil (CAN)/ Milos Raonic (CAN) 63 46 10-7

[QF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Andreas Beck (GER)/ Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
[QF] (3) Leander Peas (IND)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) vs Fabio Fognini (ITA)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK)

Lee and Janko started cautiously against big serving Canadians but whenever they got chance they tried to put pressure on youngsters ... At 3-all Lee and Janko put pressure on Vasek's serve with excellent returning and smart volleying ... They broke his serve and again they broke Milos's serve in 9th game when he was serving for staying in the set ... In the second set Vasek saved 2 break points on his serve in 4th game ... Canadian youngsters take full advantage of it and broke Lee's serve in 7th game to take 3-4 lead ... And then both pairs hold their respective services and Canadians won the second set ... In the super tie-break Lee and Janko take mini-break on Vasek's serve on 6th point to lead 4-2 ... Then they double their break again breaking Vasek's serve on 14th point to lead 9-5 ... Canadians got mini-break back when they broke Janko's serve in 16th point to reduce lead to 9-7 but next Janko served big to converting 3rd match point to completed good win.

New pair of Mahesh and Rohan struggled from the start as a pair ... Mahesh was playing well despite his newly adjusted deuce court ... Rohan was error-prone and he made few errors on his serve to lose it in 1st game ... In the second game Rohan and Mahesh had 3 break points on Ken Skupski's serve but they failed to convert ... In 7th game Mahesh saved 3 break points on his service game with 3 huge serves ... Ken Skupski saved 2 break points on his serve in 10th game while serving for the set but Indians broke him at 40-all after saving a set point, 5-all ... In 11th game Mahesh serve came under pressure ... He was 15-40 down but fought back with spirited game by Mahesh to make it 40-all but he double faulted to gave break back ... Malisse hold easily with powerful serving to won the first set ... In the second set Indian pair had a break point in 2nd and 6th game on Skupski's serve which they failed to convert ... Bops played couple of excellent points on Malisse's serve which gave 2 break points to Indians ... Mahesh converted 2nd break point from nowhere situation and after this break Bops served solidly to hold and won the second set ... Indian pair started dominantly in the super tie-break ... They take mini-break on 1st point on Skupski's serve and then double it taking point on Malisse's serve in 4th point to lead 4-0 ... Other hand our both players were serving big and winning points easily and without losing a single point on their serve they won STB easily and completed victory in 86 minutes.

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At $220K ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt Sabine Lisicki (GER)/ Shuai Peng (CHN)

Sania and Elena received walkover in their quarters due to lower leg muscle cramps to Lisicki.
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At $15K China F1 Futures, Shenzhen

[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,712) vs Liang-Chi Huang (TPE,635)

Next Saketh is facing former top 10 junior and talented youngster from Chinese Taipei Huang, who upset 7th seed Japanese in tight 2 sets.

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