Monday, September 03, 2012

Tennis News
At US Open 2012, Flushing Meadows, USA

Men's Doubles
[R3] (5) Radek Stepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Jesse Levine (USA)/ Marinko Matosevic (AUS) 61 63

[QF] (5) Radek Stepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Filip Polasek (SVK)

Women's Doubles
[R3] (13) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (2) Sara Errani (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA) 46 76(7) 36

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (6) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP)/ David Marrero(ESP) W/O
[R2] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Colin Fleming (GBR) bt Melanie Oudin (USA)/ Jack Sock (USA) 64 76(7)
[R2] (3) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Abigail Spears (USA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) 46 64 10-5

[QF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Colin Fleming (GBR) vs (4) Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)
[QF] (3) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (7) Lucie Hradecka (CZE)/ Frantisek Cermak (CZE)

Lee and Radek moved into the quarters with comfortable win over Levine and Matosevic ... Next they r facing experienced pairing of Julian Knowle and Filip Polasek, who upset 3rd seed Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau.

After losing the first set Sania and Behtanie made excellent comeback ... They won the second set in tight tie-break ... Sania and Bethanie were controlling the match with early break, 2-0 ... But from here both made numerous unforced errors and handed advantage to 2nd seed Italian pair ... Italian pair take full advantage of it winning six games from next seven games.

In MXD, Sania and Colin scored fighting win against defending US Open MXD campion Melanie and Jack ... Really good win for Sania and Colin against young tricky pair ... Next in the quarters they r facing 4th seed Peschke and Matkowski.

Lee and Elena started slowly so they needed comeback after losing the first set ... Our pair won the second set and then match tie-break with ease ... Next in the quarters they r facing 7th seed Czech pair Hradecka and Cermak.

Mahesh and his Czech partner gave walkover to their opponent so with that Mahesh mostly played his last match at US Open.

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At $50K Shanghai-1 Challenger, China

[Q3] (7) Sanam Singh (IND,402) bt (3) Greg Jones (AUS,342) 62 64

[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,402) vs (WC) Zhe Li (CHN,361)

Sanam scored solid win against Australian Greg Jones in the final qualifying round ... With this win he joins Vishnu and Yuki in the main-draw.

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