Thursday, January 17, 2013

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2013, Melbourne

[R2] Rajeev Ram (USA,130) l (12) Marin Cilic (CRO,14) 57 26 46

Doubles
[R1] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) l Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Jonathan Erlich (ISR) 36 57
[R2] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) vs Victor Hanescu (ROU)/ Martin Klizan (SVK)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (WC) Ashleigh Barty (AUS)/ Jack Sock (USA)
[R1] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bob Bryan (USA) vs (WC) Samantha Stosur (AUS)/ Luke Saville (AUS)
[R1] (5) Nadia Petrova (RUS)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)
[R1] (2) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Sofia Arvidsson (SWE)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)

In shocking result last year's doubles champion lost in the first round ... Lee and Radek lost against Anderson and Erlich in 1 hour and 30 minutes ... In the first set Anderson and Erlich take break in 8th game which was help them to win this set ... In the second set Anderson and Erlich broke opponent's in 3rd game to lead 2-1 but Lee and Radek immediately broke back ... Lee and Radek take a lead with break in 8th game to lead 5-3 ... But from here they lost four games in a row in that losing their service games twice ... Really disappointing result for 2nd seed.

Mixed doubles draw is out ... Interesting pairing btween Sania and Bob Bryan ... They r 3rd seed in top draw with Rohan and his Taipei partner ... Lee and Elena r in bottom draw ... They need to win title this time as this pair having potential but failed to produce that in crunch matches ... Also after losing in men's doubles Lee's only chance to lift title is in mixed doubles ... Mahesh is having good partner in Nadia Petrova and if respective pairs win their first 2 round matches then Lee and Mahesh can face eachother in quarters with their Russian partners.

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