Tennis News
At Australian Open 2012, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles Final
(5) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (8) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 36 75 3-10

In the beginning Leander was looking very lethargic and flat ... May be he was mentally drain out after his career slam completing Men's double title win ... Lee lost his serve on luv in 2nd game but immediately Lee and Elena broke Bethanie's serve in 3rd game ... On 4th game Elena failed to hold her serve as Lee was struggling near the net ... In 6th game Lee hold his serve after 0-40 down saving 4 break points but one break lead was enough for Mattek-Sands and Tecau to won the first set ... In the second set also Mattek-Sands and Tecau started positively breaking Elena's serve in 1st game ... Lee saved 3 break points on his serve in 3rd game before holding his serve but Mattek-Sands and Tecau were looking better pair on the court ... Other hand Lee and Elena were making too many unforced errors ... In 6th game on Tecau's serve Lee and Elena had 3 break point chances but they failed to convert it but after small rain delay they broke Mattek-Sands's serve in 8th game when she committed 2 double faults and brought set back on the serve ... Lee and Elena broke Mattek-Sands in 12th game to won the second set ... They were looking pumped up ... In super tie-break on the 1st point Mattek-Sands and Tecau take mini-break on Lee's serve when Mattek-Sands hit superb running forehand down the line winner and that set the tone of this entire STB ... After that Lee and Elena were down several mini-break ... Elena failed to handle pressure of her first grand slam title as she made few errors ... Her volleying, which was good in first 2 sets, let her down in STB and also she was struggled from back of the court ... Other hand Bethanie Mattek-Sands played excellent game from back of the court and also near the net ... This was Horia Tecau and Bethanie Mattek-Sands first grand slam title.
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At $50K Burnie Challenger, Australia

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,314) vs Ze Zhang (CHN,292)

This week Vishnu is playing in Australian challenger and facing China's top single player in the first round.