Tennis News
At Australian Open 2012, Melbourne
Doubles
[R3] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt (12) Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 75 63
[QF] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs (2) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)
Mixed Doubles
[R2] (4) Lisa Raymond (USA)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) 64 62
[R2] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Iveta Benesova (CZE)/ Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 36 64 12-10
[QF] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Liezel Huber (USA)/ Colin Fleming (GBR)
Junior Boys
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Stefan Vinti (ROU) l (2) Julien Cagnina (BEL)/ Thiago Monteiro (BRA) 67(6) 64 7-10
Junior Girls
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) bt (ALT) Ratnika Batra (IND)/ Georgiana Ruhrig (AUS) 16 64 10-5
[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) vs Naiktha Bains (AUS)/ Danielle Wagland (AUS)
Sania and Elena struggled early and were two breaks down at 1-4 but after that they got both breaks back and won six out of next seven games to win the first set 7-5 ... In the second set Sania and Elena take break in 4th game to lead 4-1 but Jarmila and Bethanie broke Sania's serve in 7th game to make it 4-3 ... After that Sania and Elena broke opponent's serve in 8th and after that Elena hold to completed their victory and the place in quarter-final ... Next they r facing experienced 2nd seed pair of Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond.
In MXD, Rohan and Lisa started on backfoot after Lisa losing the serve in 3rd game but they broke Dellacqua and Ebden service games in 8th and 10th games to win the first set ... In the second set Lisa and Rohan broke Dellacqua in 4th and 8th games to completed easy victory.
IN MXD, Sania and Mahesh had tough match against current Wimbledon champions ... Mahesh and Sania were early break down after Mahesh lost his service game in the 6th game, 2-4 but our pair immediately broke in the next game, 3-4 ... In the 8th game our pair wasted 2 game points on Sania's serve from 40-15 and lost this service game, again down 3-5 ... Melzer hold easily and won the first set with Benesova ... In the second set again Melzer and Benesova take early break ... They broke our pair's serve in 3rd game, 1-2, but this time also our pair immediately broke back, 2-2 ... After saving a break point on Mahesh's serve in 9th game our pair broke Melzer in 10th game to won the second set ... In STB, Melzer and Benesova saved a match point on their serve, 9-all ... Now they r having match point, 10-9 ... Our pair saved a match point 10-all ... Our pair converted 2nd match point to completed remarkable comeback victory.
Good to see Rutuja and her Indonesian partner scored win against alternate pairing of Batra and Ruhrig ... After losing the first set easily they made fightback winning the next and then won STB comfortably ... So this was Rutuja's first victory in the grandslam ... Next they r facing local pair.
Arjun and his Romanian partner Stefan Vinti gave tremendous fighting performance against 2nd seed pair ... After losing the first set in tight tie-break they won the second set breaking 2nd seeds in 9th game ... In STB the 2nd seed take early mini-break to lead 2-1 and with that single mini-break they completed victory.
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At $50K Honolulu Challenger, USA
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,310) vs (7) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,209)
Yuki is facing seeded player, Japanese Yuichi Sugita, in the first round ... Sugita played well at Chennai Open, where as an qualifier he reached in the quarters upsetting #67 Olivier Rochus and #82 Yen-Hsun Lu before losing to #10 Nicolas Almagro but he lost in the first round of Australian open qualifying.
Good opportunity for Yuki to start with upset win.
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At $10K Turkey F3 futures, Antalya - Kaya-Belek
[Q1] (14) Sanam SINGH (IND,888) l Franjo RASPUDIC (BIH,1006) 57 64 46
After excellent first week Sanam failed to take advantage in next two futures ... Here he lost in the first round of qualifying ... Really shocking loss against Bosnia and Herzegovina player.
At Australian Open 2012, Melbourne
Doubles
[R3] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) bt (12) Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 75 63
[QF] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs (2) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)
Mixed Doubles
[R2] (4) Lisa Raymond (USA)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Casey Dellacqua (AUS)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) 64 62
[R2] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Iveta Benesova (CZE)/ Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 36 64 12-10
[QF] (6) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Liezel Huber (USA)/ Colin Fleming (GBR)
Junior Boys
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Stefan Vinti (ROU) l (2) Julien Cagnina (BEL)/ Thiago Monteiro (BRA) 67(6) 64 7-10
Junior Girls
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) bt (ALT) Ratnika Batra (IND)/ Georgiana Ruhrig (AUS) 16 64 10-5
[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Aldila Sutjiadi (INA) vs Naiktha Bains (AUS)/ Danielle Wagland (AUS)
Sania and Elena struggled early and were two breaks down at 1-4 but after that they got both breaks back and won six out of next seven games to win the first set 7-5 ... In the second set Sania and Elena take break in 4th game to lead 4-1 but Jarmila and Bethanie broke Sania's serve in 7th game to make it 4-3 ... After that Sania and Elena broke opponent's serve in 8th and after that Elena hold to completed their victory and the place in quarter-final ... Next they r facing experienced 2nd seed pair of Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond.
In MXD, Rohan and Lisa started on backfoot after Lisa losing the serve in 3rd game but they broke Dellacqua and Ebden service games in 8th and 10th games to win the first set ... In the second set Lisa and Rohan broke Dellacqua in 4th and 8th games to completed easy victory.
IN MXD, Sania and Mahesh had tough match against current Wimbledon champions ... Mahesh and Sania were early break down after Mahesh lost his service game in the 6th game, 2-4 but our pair immediately broke in the next game, 3-4 ... In the 8th game our pair wasted 2 game points on Sania's serve from 40-15 and lost this service game, again down 3-5 ... Melzer hold easily and won the first set with Benesova ... In the second set again Melzer and Benesova take early break ... They broke our pair's serve in 3rd game, 1-2, but this time also our pair immediately broke back, 2-2 ... After saving a break point on Mahesh's serve in 9th game our pair broke Melzer in 10th game to won the second set ... In STB, Melzer and Benesova saved a match point on their serve, 9-all ... Now they r having match point, 10-9 ... Our pair saved a match point 10-all ... Our pair converted 2nd match point to completed remarkable comeback victory.
Good to see Rutuja and her Indonesian partner scored win against alternate pairing of Batra and Ruhrig ... After losing the first set easily they made fightback winning the next and then won STB comfortably ... So this was Rutuja's first victory in the grandslam ... Next they r facing local pair.
Arjun and his Romanian partner Stefan Vinti gave tremendous fighting performance against 2nd seed pair ... After losing the first set in tight tie-break they won the second set breaking 2nd seeds in 9th game ... In STB the 2nd seed take early mini-break to lead 2-1 and with that single mini-break they completed victory.
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At $50K Honolulu Challenger, USA
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,310) vs (7) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,209)
Yuki is facing seeded player, Japanese Yuichi Sugita, in the first round ... Sugita played well at Chennai Open, where as an qualifier he reached in the quarters upsetting #67 Olivier Rochus and #82 Yen-Hsun Lu before losing to #10 Nicolas Almagro but he lost in the first round of Australian open qualifying.
Good opportunity for Yuki to start with upset win.
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At $10K Turkey F3 futures, Antalya - Kaya-Belek
[Q1] (14) Sanam SINGH (IND,888) l Franjo RASPUDIC (BIH,1006) 57 64 46
After excellent first week Sanam failed to take advantage in next two futures ... Here he lost in the first round of qualifying ... Really shocking loss against Bosnia and Herzegovina player.
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