Monday, January 21, 2013

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2013, Melbourne

Doubles
[R3] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) l Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Fabio Fognini (ITA) 36 64 36

Mixed Doubles
[R2] Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)/ Fabio Fognini (ITA) 61 75
[R2] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bob Bryan (USA) bt Abigail Spears (USA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) 46 61 10-4

[QF] Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL)
[QF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bob Bryan (USA) vs Lucie Hradecka (CZE)/ Frantisek Cermak (CZE)

This year terrible results in men's doubles for us in Australian open as Mahesh and Daniel lost against Italian pair ... After losing the first set Mahesh and Daniel fought back to win the second ... But they failed to keep momentum in the decider ... Italians were attacking their serves and take break of serve ... Mahesh and Daniel saved 2 match points on their serves but Italian hold their serve for the victory.

Sania and Bob lost the first set with a single break but they fought back in the second ... They broke Spears and Lipsky service games in 2nd and 4th game to lead 4-0 and kept that advantage to win the second set in 22 minutes ... Sania and Bob didn't give chance to Amrican pair and take control from the start to won match tie-break comfortably ... Sania and Bob Bryan r facing Czech pair in the quarters, who upset 7th seed in the second round.

Dominated start for Rohan and Su-Wei Hsieh ... They won the first set in 19 minutes with double break ... In the second set they were dowm when Su-Wei lost her serve in 4th game ... Our pair responded breaking opponent's serve in next game, 3-3 ... Rohan and Su-Wei Hsieh missed break point chance in 9th game but they broke opponent's in 11th game and then hold their serve to win this match in 55 minutes ... Next in the quarters they r facing another unseeded pair, Peschke and Matkowski, who received walkover in the second round.

1 comment:

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