Sunday, May 31, 2009

Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[R3] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) l Jose Acasuso (ARG)/ Fernando Gonzalez (CHI) 57 64 46

Mahesh and Mark lost in third round against South Americans in 3 sets ... It always feel bad when doubles specialist pair lost against singles players ... So only Lee is remaining in doubles.
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At $50K Carson Challenger II, California, USA

[F] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN) bt (2) Carsten Ball (AUS)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA) 64 64

And this week harsh lifted doubles challenger title after losing last couple of finals ... He and Nielsen scored straight sets victory over 2nd seed pair ... This was Harsh's 4th challenger level doubles title, he won first title in 2003 at Donetsk Challenger, Ukraine and then last year won 2 titles in New Delhi challengers ... This win gives 75 ranking points so guranteed Harsh will re-enter into top-150 in next ranking updates.
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At $50K Nottingham Challenger, Great Britain (on grass)

[Q1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,284) bt Colin O'Brien (IRL,622) 61 62

[Q2] Rohan Bopanna (IND,284) vs Joshua Milton (GBR,703)

[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,161) vs (WC) Daniel Evans (GBR,316)
[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,135) vs Qualifier

So our top 3 singles players playing first grass court event of grass season ... Prakash and Som r in maindraw, Rohan is playing qualifying ... Expecting good rsults from Kash and Rohan on their favourite surface but as such no expectation from Som as he is playing first-time on grass in UK.

As expected easy start for Rohan against Irish player, next he is facing British player ... This match can be tricky.

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Golf News
At The European Open 2009, Ash, Kent, England

T5 Jeev Milkha Singh 67 69 71 76 -5 € 73294.06
T46 Shiv Kapur 67 74 75 76 +4 € 9212.94
T46 Jyoti Randhawa 66 73 79 74 +4 € 9212.94

Jeev must be disappointed with his performance as he was leading in 2nd and 3rd rounds ... Today Par round also gave him title as winner won with -7 score.

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