Thursday, July 26, 2012

Olympics News
At London Olympics 2012, England

[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,418) vs Jarkko Nieminen (FIN,41)

Men's Doubles
[R1] (7) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Alexander Bury (BLR)
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Robin Haase (NED)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)

Women's Doubles
[R1] (WC) Sania Mirza (IND)/Rushmi Chakravarthi (IND) vs Chia-jung Chuang (TPE)/ Su-wei Hsieh (TPE)

Vishnu need to calm his nerves and rise to the occasion for helping Lee to win their match against Dutch pair ... Rohan and Mahesh r favorite in their first round match though they r facing Max Mirnyi as his partner is very lowly ranked ... In the men's singles and women's doubles we r having almost no chance as Som is playing his first competitive match after 9 months and Taipei pair is lot better than pairing of Sania and Rushmi.

Som is in Andy's draw and if wins his first round then can face winner between Andy Murray and Wawrinka ... Lee and Vishnu can face 2nd seed French pair Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the second round ... Rohan and Mahesh can face tricky second round against winner between British pair Fleming/Hutchins and French pair Benneteau/Gasquet.

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...