Friday, October 05, 2012

Tennis News
At 4.8M China Open, Beijing

[SF] (5) Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt (6) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)/ Jie Zheng (CHN) 75 61

[F] (5) Nuria Llagostera Vives (ESP)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (3) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS)

In end comfortable win in the second set ... In the first set both pairs were struggling to hold their serves, total 7 break of service games ... In the second set our pair broke opponents 3 times without facing break point ... In the final Sania is facing her rx-Russian doubles partner Elena Vesnina.
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At $3.44M China Open, Beijing

[QF] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Carlos Berlocq (ARG)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) 26 67(6)

Mahesh and Rohan lost against unseeded pair in the straight sets ... After losing the first set easily they tried hard in the second but that wasn't enough.
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At $1.2M Japan Open, Tokyo

[QF] (1) Radek Stepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Andy Murray (GBR)/ Jamie Murray (GBR) 64 36 10-2

[SF] (1) Radek Stepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Daniele Bracciali (ITA)/ Frantisek Cermak (CZE)

Lee and Radek needed match tie-break to win over Murray brothers ... Both sets won by a single break but in match tie-break our pair take control from the start and won it comfortably ... Next they r facing unseeded Italian-Czech pair.
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At $100K Sacramento Challenger, USA

[QF] Drew Courtney (USA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Devin Britton (USA)/ Austin Krajicek (USA) 67(4) 76(5) 10-5

Purav and Drew gave fighting performance but lost this close match ... After losing the first set in tie-break they won the second set in tie-break ... But in match tie-break Drew and Purav 0-6 down and never recovered.
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At $15K Australia F9 Futures, Esperance

[QF] (4) Saketh Myneni (IND,385) l Adam Feeney (AUS,451) 36 16

Saketh failed to produce fight against in-form Feeney.

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