Saturday, January 19, 2013

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2013, Melbourne

Doubles
[R2] (12) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) l Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Fabio Fognini (ITA) 26 67(3)
[R2] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) bt Victor Hanescu (ROU)/ Martin Klizan (SVK) 61 76(8)

[R3] (5) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) vs Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Fabio Fognini (ITA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (WC) Ashleigh Barty (AUS)/ Jack Sock (USA) 63 63
[R1] (2) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Sofia Arvidsson (SWE)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 67(8) 64 10-7

[R2] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bob Bryan (USA) vs Abigail Spears (USA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)
[R2] (2) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS)

Our struggle in men's doubles continued ... Rohan and Rajeev lost against unseeded Italian pair in straight sets ... Italians dominated the first set winning it with double break ... In the second set Rohan and Rajeev tried fightback but Italians proved strong in tie-break.

Other hand terrific start for Mahesh and Daniel ... After 1-all they won 5 games in a row, in that breaking opponent's serve twice, to won the first set in 22 minutes ... In the second set Mahesh and Daniel saved a break pint on their serve in 4th game ... They had 5 break point chance on Klizan's serve in 9th game but failed to convert ... Mahesh and Daniel played well in tight tie-break to won it and avoided the match going into the final set.

Rohan and Hsieh scored straight sets win over Aussie-American wild-card pair ... Lee and Elena had a tricky match against Aisam and Sofia. As expected match was cracker, Aisam and Sofia won the first set in tight tie-break but Lee and Elena fought back to win the second set ... In match tie-break Lee and Elena's experience of playing together helped to win crucial points.

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