Thursday, January 24, 2013

Tennis News
At Australian Open 2013, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bob Bryan (USA) l Lucie Hradecka (CZE)/ Frantisek Cermak (CZE) 57 46
[QF] (5) Nadia Petrova (RUS)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) l (WC) Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS)/ Matthew Ebden (AUS) 36 63 11-13

Sania and Mahesh lost with their respective partners in mixed doubles quarter'finals and with that Indian challenge got over in this ongoing Australian open ... Sania and Bob lost against Czech pair ... And wild-card Australian pair continued with their dream run and scored another upset win over Mahesh and Nadia ... In last round they defeated Lee and Elena easily.

In the first set Czech pair take crucial break on Sania's serve in 11th game to win it ... In the second set they again broke Sania's serve in 3rd game but lost their serve in 4th game ... Again they take crucial break in 5th game and kept that lead to win the set and match.

Mahesh and Nadia started well after breaking Aussie's serve in 3rd game to lead 2-1 ... But after that Aussie pair won 5 games from 6 games played in that they broke Mahesh and Nadia's serve twice and won this set ... In the second set Mahesh and Nadia take crucial break in 8th game and then hold their serve to win this set ... In match tie-break Mahesh and Nadia were leading 4-2 and 7'5 with mini-break but Aussie pair fought back to catch them ... Our pair missed matched point at 10-9 and Aussie pair converted 3rd match point for exciting win.

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