Tennis News
At €2.75M ATP World Tour Rome Masters 1000, Italy

[R2] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt (ALT) Ivo Karlovic (CRO)/ Dusan Vemic (SRB) 61 61
[R2] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt (ALT) Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA) 76(5) 26 10(3)

Lee and Lukas made solid strong start in this Rome Masters scoring very one-sided win to move into quarters.

Mahesh and Mark scored fighting win in super tie-break to moved into quarters.
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At $100K+H Aegean Tennis Cup 2009, Rhodes, Greece (Hard court)

[R2] Rajeev Ram (USA,170) l Simon Stadler (GER,173) (5)67 (5)67
[R2] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,326) bt Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,180) 26 76(2) 75

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,178) vs (1) Dudi Sela (ISR,56)
[QF] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,326) vs Simon Stadler (GER,173)

Doubles
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Harel Levy (ISR) l Karol Beck (SVK)/ Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE) 62 36 (12)14

Rohan scripted remarkable comeback victory after losing first set easily where he struggled to retun Bogdanovic's big serve ... But from second set Rohan matches Bogdanovic and won set in tie-break ... In decider he take important break in 11 games to scored win in 2 hours ... Next he is facing German, who defeated Rajeev.

But Rohan lost into doubles semi-final with Harel Levy ... After 1 set-all, in super tie-break Rohan and Levy were up with 2 mini-breaks but experienced Beck and Levinsky came back to 5-all from 2-5 down ... After that Beck and Levinsky take mini-break to lead 7-6 but this time Rohan and Levy broke back to make it 7-8 ... And then holding their serve they grabbed their first match point at 9-8 but Beck and Levinsky make it 9-all with winning next point on their serve they created their 1st match point ... But this time Rohan and Levy's turned to save it and holding serve to lead 11-10 ... Again Beck and Levinsky saved match point on their own serve and gave them 2 second chance to win match ... Rohan and Levy saved that to make in 12-all but Beck and Levinsky take crucial mini-break to lead 12-13 ... They hold their serve to win this close contested super tie-break.
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At $15k India F4, New Delhi

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) Raven KLAASEN (RSA) bt (PR) Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) 62 62
(6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (Q) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 76(3) 60

(Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA) bt Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 62 1-0 Retd
(SE) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt (Q) Peerakit SIRIBUTWONG (THA) 63 62

Doubles Semi Finals
(3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Yuki Bhambri (IND) 63 64

Tushar Liberhan (IND)/ Vishal Punna (IND) bt (2) Jiri Krkoska (CZE)/ Navdeep Singh (IND) 76(6) 76(4)

So like last week our same 2 players reached in semis and this time also Vishnu having tough challenge of top-seed in semis ... Yuki scored another easy win and facing another Thai qualifier in semis.

In doubles all Indians final is on card.
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At $25K Namangan ITF Tournament, Uzbekistan

[QF] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,534) l (6) Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR,361) 26 61 36

Fighting performance by Poojashree in her loss against this top-350 type player.