Friday, May 15, 2009

Tennis News
At €3.7M Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open, Spain

[QF] Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) 2-0 Retd. (due to left knee injury to Azarenka)

[SF] Chia-Jung Chuang (TPE)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs (3) Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Lisa Raymond (USA)

Without playing match Sania and Chia-Jung entered into semis of Madrid Masters ... In semis they r facing 3rd seed pair of Lisa Raymond and Kveta Peschke ... This semi-final appearence in Madrid Masters will help Sania to re-enter into top-50 in next week's doubles ranking.

Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy withdraw from Madrid Masters due to illness to Dlouhy.
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At $75K+H Izmir Cup, Turkey

[QF] (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt Frederik Nielsen (DEN)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) 63 64

[SF] (2) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) vs (3) Michail Elgin (RUS)/ Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS)

So Ram participated in doubles with Kash and they had easy victory in quarters.
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At $50K Sarasota Open, Longboat Key, Florida, USA

[QF] (3) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Kaes Van't Hof (USA) bt (Q) Ty Braswell (USA)/ Ryan Harrison (USA) 63 76(3)

So Harsh and Kaes captured another win against qualifiers, who were good collegian doubles players, to move into semis.
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At $50K Raleigh Tournament, USA (Clay)

[R2] (LL) Shikha Uberoi (IND,583) l Lilia Osterloh (USA,234) 46 26

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