Tuesday, January 27, 2009

 Tennis News
At Australian Open 2009, Melbourne

[QF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/ Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 61 26 64

[SF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Oliver Marach (AUT)

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Patty Schnyder (SUI)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 16 57

Junior Boys' Singles
[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,2) bt Stephen Hoh (AUS,98) 76(1) 60
[R2] Kaza Vinayak Sharma (IND,79) l Justin Eleveld (NED,46) 16 16

[R3] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,2) vs (13) Dino Marcan (CRO,32)

Doubles
[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) bt Marco Bortolotti (ITA)/ Vladzimir Kruk (BLR) 63 64

Junior Girls' Doubles
[R2] Eugenie Bouchard (CAN)/ Kyra Shroff (IND) l (6) Christina McHale (USA)/ Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) 46 16

Yuki scored straight sets victory against local player ... In this match Yuki didn't face any break point on his serve, surprisingly both players didn't face any break point in the first set but from tie-break Yuki shifted gear to score easy victory ... In doubles also Yuki moved into quarter-final with his Taipei partner with straight sets victory in 66 mins.

In doubles, Mahesh and Mark won first set comfortably in 26 mins breaking Spanish pairs serve twice ... But in second set Spanish pair turned table on our pair to won it easily in 27 mins this time they broke our pair service games twice ... In third set both pair managed to hold their serve until 4-all but in 9th game Mahesh and Mark take important break and then served for the match to win it in 1 hr 28 mins.

In MXD, Lee and Cara didn't click in this match ... They easily lost first set in just 21 mins where their opponent broke their service games twice ... In second set they tried comeback breaking Schnyder/ Moodie serve but Schnyder/ Moodie broke their service games twice in a row to finished match in1 hr 4 mins.

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