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

[QF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt (6) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 63 64
[QF] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) l (5) Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Kevin Ullyett (ZIM) 57 36

[SF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

Mahesh and Mark scored straight sets victory without losing much sweat to moved into semis ... But Lee and Lukas lost their quarters against 5th seed ... They r showing very patchy performance.
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At $100K+H Aegean Tennis Cup 2009, Rhodes, Greece (Hard court)

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,178) bt (1) Dudi Sela (ISR,56) 64 46 63
[QF] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,326) l Simon Stadler (GER,173) 57 26

[SF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,178) vs (7) Benjamin Becker (GER,126)

Kash produced huge upset scoring win over top-50 type Israeli player, who himself was in best form of his career ... In first set both traded breaks 2 times but Kash grabbed important break in 10 the game to won this set in 38 mins ... In second set Dudi played more solid game and grabbed important break in 7th game to won set in 41 mins ... But in third set Kash played unbelievable solid service games and grabbed importnat break in 4th game ... And won this match in 1 hour in 48 minutes.

Rohan's fine run ended in quarters but very fine run where he needed to qualify.
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At $15k India F4, New Delhi

Singles Semi Finals
(1) Raven KLAASEN (RSA) bt (6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 63 64
(SE) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) bt (Q) Weerapat DOAKMAIKLEE (THA) 61 64

Doubles Final
(3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ J. Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Tushar Liberhan (IND)/ Vishal Punna (IND) 61 63

Yuki reached second final in 2 weeks but here he is having tought challenge of top-seeded Raven to repeat last week's title win performance ... After winning first set easily Yuki lost concentration in second set and did lots of unforced errors but after 3-4 down he cameback strongly to won last 3 games ... Other hand Vishnu couldn't repeat last week's performance of upsetting Raven, today Raven scored somewhat easy victory.

In doubles pair of Divij and Vishnu dominated final to captured the title.