Tennis News
At Australian Open 2009, Melbourne

[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Paul Hanley (AUS)/ Jordan Kerr (AUS) 62 75
[R3] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt Nicolas Lapentti (ECU)/ Tommy Robredo (ESP) 63 64

[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA)
[QF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/ Fernando Verdasco (ESP)

Junior Boys' Singles
[R1] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,79) bt Patrk Brydolf (SWE,71) 64 62
[R1] Sudarwa Sitaram (IND,86) l Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA,54) 36 46

[R2] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,79) vs Justin Eleveld (NED,46)

Doubles
[R1] Ronak Manuja (IND)/ Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND) l Luke Saville (AUS)/ Jack Schipanski (AUS) 67(1) 06
[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) bt Gabriel Dias (BRA)/ German Sanchez Delfin (MEX) 75 63
[R1] Toni Androic (CRO)/ Sudarwa Sitaram (IND) l (7) Francis Casey Alcantara (PHI)/ Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE) 36 46

[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) vs Marco Bortolotti (ITA)/ Vladzimir Kruk (BLR)

Junior Girls' Singles
[R1] Kyra shroff (IND,87) l Monika Tumova (CZE,53) 06 36

Doubles
[R1] Eugenie Bouchard (CAN)/ Kyra Shroff (IND) bt Ema Burgic (BIH)/ Chanel Simmonds (RSA) 61 Retd.
[R1] Tanvi Shah (IND)/ Rashmi Teltumbde (IND) l Ester Goldfeld (USA)/ Hannah James (GBR) 46 67(5)

[R2] Eugenie Bouchard (CAN)/ Kyra Shroff (IND) vs (6) Christina McHale (USA)/ Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO)

Solid wins by Lee and Mahesh with their respective partners to moved into quarter-fionals of AO ... Mahesh and Mark showed their experience while beating singles specialist ... But Lee and Lukas had tricky match against local pair, they won tight second set to broke Kerr's serve in 12th game where crowd was against them.

In Junior, Kaza Vinayak Sharma scored upset win over higher ranked Swedish boy ... In doubles top-seed Yuki with Liang-Chi Huang had winning start ... Kyra and her Canadian partner also won when their opponents conceded match after losing the first set.