Tennis News
At $2M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE

[SF] (2) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Shuai Peng (CHN) 62 67(5) 13-11

[F] (2) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (1) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)

After winning the first set Sania and Elena struggled to finish the match ... They lost the second set in tie-break ... Needed to save 3 match points before winning close super tie-break.
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At $513K Open 13, Marseille, France

[SF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Dustin Brown (GER)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA)

In the semis our pair will play against scratch pair.
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At $10K India F1 Futures 2012, Chandigarh

Singles Semi Finals
Sanam SINGH (IND,776) bt (4) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,536) 62 62
N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,739) bt (5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,537) 63 62

Doubles Final
Rohan GAJJAR (IND)/ Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (WC) Vijay KANNAN (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) 75 63

Very dominating performance by Sanam against seeded Japanese opponent ... Balaji also scored commanding win over higher ranked Ranjeet to face Sanam in thew final.

In doubles Rohan and Saketh lifted title beating veterans Arunprakash and Vijay Kannan.