Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[Q2] (26) Somdev Devvarman (IND,138) bt Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,198) 62 67(3) 64
[Q2] Rajeev Ram (USA,169) l (4) Victor Crivoi (ROU,99) 46 46

[Q3] (26) Somdev Devvarman (IND,138) vs (3) Marcos Daniel (BRA,96)

Som started well against serve and volleyer Britisher ... In first set Som only face a single break point in 8th game while serving for the set and he broke Bogdanovic's serve twice in 3rd game and 7th game to won it in 30 minutes ... But second set started other way around as Bogdanovic broke Som's serve in 2nd game to take early lead but Som came back breaking Bogdanovic's serve in next game ... But they they again exchanged breaks in next 2 games and then they hold their serves until 6-6 ... Bogdanovic dominated tie-break to won second set in 70 minutes ... In third set Bogdanovic started breaking Som's serve in first game ... Som break back in 4th game but he again got broken but he made another comeback in match breaking Bogdanovic's serve in 8th game to make it 4-all ... After holding his serve in 9th game he created 3 match points on Bogdanovic's serve, 0-40 ... Bogdanovic saved one match point but Som sealed match winning second match point to moved into final qualifying of French Open 2009 ... He won third set on 61 minutes, total almost 2 hours 45 minutes battle.

This is the best performance by Indian on European clay after Lee made the main draw 2nd round in the 1997 French Open ... Tomorrow Som having tough match but when challenge rises somehow Som having tendency of raising his game so in my view upset is on the card.