Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Tennis News
At $5.03M Indian Wells Masters, USA

Doubles
[R1] (8) Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Lisa Raymond (USA)/ Samantha Stosur (AUS)

Women's doubles draw is out, Sania and Bethanie r in bottom draw with 2nd seed Czech pair ... They r 8th seed but having tricky first round against good pairing of former WR #1 Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur.
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At $35K Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,266) l (6) Michal Przysiezny (POL,178) 76(4) 36 57

Doubles
[R1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Suk-Young Jeong (KOR) 61 63

[QF] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (ALT) Yuichi Ito (JPN)/ Takuto Niki (JPN)
[QF] Yuki BHambri (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) vs (2) Chris Guccione (AUS)/ Matt Reid (AUS)

Both players were holding their service games at ease ... Like the way Yuki was serving in this match ... In tie-break Yuki take mini-breaks on 5th and 9th points to lead 6-3 ... Przysiezny take one mini-break on 10th point but Yuki won next point on his serve and won the first set ... Yuki started to struggle in on his serve in the second set ... Yuki saved 2 break points from 15-40 in 3rd game but lost his serve in 5th game from 40-15 ... Michal again broke Yuki in 9th game and won the second set with double break ... In the final set first time in the match Yuki had break point on Michal's serve in 1st game ... But Michal hold with huge serving, then in 3rd game also Yuki take it to deuce ... This time also Michal hold with huge serving ... After that both players holding their service games comfortably ... But in 12th game while serving for staying in the match Yuki failed to hold his serve.

Comfortable winning start for top-seed Purav and Divij ... Next they r facing local pair ... Yuki and his Japnese partner r facing 2nd seed Aussie pair.

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