Saturday, February 25, 2012

Tennis News
At $2M Dubai Tennis Championships, UAE

[F] (2) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (1) Liezel Huber (USA)/ Lisa Raymond (USA) 26 16

Top-seed Lisa and Liezel scored very dominating win over 2nd seed Elena and Sania ... In the first set Lisa and Liezel broke Sania and ELena twice to won this set ... In the second set Sania and Elena managed to break their serve once but Lisa and Liezel broke them thrice to completed one-sided win in 67 minutes.
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At $513K Open 13, Marseille, France

[SF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Dustin Brown (GER)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 76(3) 57 6-10

Close loss for top-seed Mahesh and Rohan against big serving scratch pair ... After winning the first set in tie-break our pair lost the second set with a single break ... The STB won by this big serving pair comfortably ... In this match Brown and Tsonga served 19 aces and our pair managed 7.
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At $10K India F1 Futures 2012, Chandigarh

Singles Final
Sanam SINGH (IND,776) bt N.Sriram BALAJI (IND,739) 75 63

Congrats Sanam for deserving title win in $10K futures ... This was his second futures title, before this he won at Chandigarh only in December 2005 ... All matches he won in straight sets without losing more than 8 games in the match.

In the final Sanam started tentatively and lost his serve early to fall behaind 1-4 but from 5-2 he won next 5 games breaking Balaji twice to won the first set ... In the second set Sanam broke Balaji in 3rd game to lead 2-1 and Sanam again broke Balaji in 9th game to completed the victory.

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At $50K Singapore Challenger,

[Q1] (2) Vijayant Malik (IND,465) bye
[Q1] (3) Karan Rastogi (IND,488) bye
[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND,804) bt Sonchai Rattiawana (THA,UNR) 62 63

[Q2] (2) Vijayant Malik (IND,465) vs Ariez Elyaas Deen Hesham (MAS,UNR)
[Q2] Divij Sharan (IND,804) vs (1) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA,301)
[Q2] (3) Karan Rastogi (IND,488) vs (WC) Austin Karosi (USA,UNR)

Good to see so many Indian players r playing together ... Yuki and Vishnu r in the main-draw ... Karan and Vijayant playing qualifying with Divij.

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