Tennis News -
At Asia/Oceania Zone Group I 2008, New Delhi, India (Grass)
2nd Round - India vs Japan 2-0

Day 1 -
[R1] Rohan BOPANNA (IND,325) bt Kei NISHIKORI (JPN,118) 76(2) 36 64 26 63 (2hrs 45mins)
[R2] Prakash AMRITRAJ (IND,261) bt Go SOEDA (JPN,156) 46 67(5) 64 64 8-6 (4hrs 03mins)

Both matches were 5 setters and Indians won both matches to surprised their higher rank opponents in thrilling matches ... Kash produced best victory of his short Davis Cup career ... This was his first comeback victory in 5 sets match ... Simply amazing performance ... Now Indians having great chance of finishing this tie in 2nd day with winning doubles match..

First Rubber -
First set went as per serves, with some powerful serving Bops won this set in tie-break.
In second set, Kei broke Bops serve on 2nd game.
In third set Bops broke Kei's serve on 2nd game but Kei broke back in 7th game ... Bops broke Kei serve in 10th game to won 3rd set.
In fourth Kei started with breaking Bops serve in 1st game then he again broke Bops serve on 7th game.
In fifth set Bops take crucial break of the match in 8th game, While serving for the match Bops saved 2 break points at 15-40 before converting first match point.

Second Rubber-
In second set Go started with breaking Kash's serve, but Kash broke back immediately in next game ... Kash had mini-break in tie-break but couldn't manage to take advantage of it.
In third set Kash broke Soeda's serve in 9th game to win the set.
Fourth set started dramatically as Kash broke Soeda's serve in the first game but Soeda fought back breaking Kash's serve in fourth game ... But Kash again broke Soeda's serve in 7th game to win the set.
In fifth set, Kash was always under pressure on his serve ... He saved numerous break points but other hand Soeda was comfortably holding his serve ... In 12th game Kash saved 1 match point on his serve ... After that suddenly Kash found required confidence to break Soeda's serve in 13th game at 15 ... Then he converted first match point on his serve to win match after saving couple of brek points.
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At $25K Jackson Womens Challenger, MS, USA

[R2] (3) Sunitha Rao (IND,170) bt (Q) Alexis Gordon (USA,742) 62 64

[QF] (3) Sunitha Rao (IND,170) vs (8) Tetiana Luzhanska (UKR,213)

Sunitha continuing with her good form scoring easy victory against qualifier ... Now 8th seed Ukrainian in quarters.
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Sania's Wrist Surgery -

Good news!!! The surgery on Sania's wrist got done successfully ... Fortunately there were no tear in the ligaments ... Basically the surgical procedure was to remove the debris from a year of inflammation and a repair of the wrist capsule (this is not like a broken bone or repaired ligaments.) ... Doctor ordered 3 weeks of cast and then she will start moving the wrist ... So mostly in 4-6 weeks Sania will get back on court and hit ... May be she need to skip French Open but she will be definitely back on court from grass season .