Friday, March 01, 2013

Tennis News
At 1.78M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship, UAE

[SF] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Michael Llodra (FRA) bt Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) 63 67(2) 10-5

Mahesh and Llodra enter into the final with match tie-break win over Rohan and Rajeev ... Mahesh and Llodra won the first set with a single break ... In the second set also they were break up early, 3-1 ... But while serving for the match at 5-4 they failed to hold and then Rohan and Rajeev won the tie-break easily ... In match tie-break Mahesh and Llodra take early 4-2 lead which they kept increasing.
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At $10K India F1 Futures, Chennai

Singles
[SF] (1) Victor CRIVOI (ROU) bt (4) Thales TURINI (BRA)
[SF] (3) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt (PR) Tak Khunn WANG (FRA) 76(2) 26 62

Doubles Final
(1) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 64 06 10-7

Excellent win by Jeevan against in-form former top-500 Frenchman Wang ... In the first set Jeevan broke Wang when he was serving for the set at 4-5 and then won the set in tie-break ... Wang fought back in the second winning with double break but then Jeevan dominated the final set and enter into the final ... In the final he is facing former top100 Romanian Crivoi.

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