Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,95) l Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ,81) 46 67(3)

Sania lost match in around 1 hour 30 minutes ... In this match Sania had chances but she couldn't able to convert them ... In first set Voskoboeva broke Sania's serve in 3rd game and that single break was enough to won set ... Sania had 4 break point opportunities but she failed to convert it ... In second set Voskoboeva started with breaking Sania's serve but Sania broke back immediately ... Voskoboeva broke Sania's serve in 7th game and was leading 3-5, Sania broke Voskoboeva's serve when she was serving for the match at 4-5 but in end Voskoboeva was too strong for Sania in tie-break as Sania also helped with 2 double faults ... In complete match Sania served 10 double faults.
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At $50K Carson Tournament, California, USA

[Q3] (1) Shikha Uberoi (IND,533) bt Krista Hardebeck (USA,UNR) 36 64 60

[R1] (Q) Shikha Uberoi (IND,533) vs (8) Alexandra Stevenson (USA,263)

Shikha struggled to beat 14 yrs old American girl ... But in end managed to pull off victory to move into maindraw.
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At $15K Kuwait F1 Futures, Meshref

[R1] (Q) NARAYANASWAMY Srirambalaji (IND,UNR) l LEE Hsin-Han (TPE,612) 57 64 46
[R1] (Q) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) bt (Q) MAAROUF Hayan (SYR,1844) 60 63
[R1] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,773) bt (4) KROTIOUK Sergei (RUS,544) 64 61
[R1] (PR) SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,1202) bt RICE David (GBR,884) 36 64 76(6)
[R1] SINGH Navdeep (IND,949) l THORNLEY Sean (GBR,825) 16 06
[R1] VIRALI-MURUGESAN Ranjeet (IND,847) l (3) YSERN Pierrick (FRA,539) 36 26

[R2] (Q) MALIK Vijayant (IND,1315) vs (5) LEJNIEKS Karlis (LAT,554)
[R2] GAJJAR Rohan (IND,773) vs (PR) SHOKEEN Vivek (IND,1202)
[R2] (8) VARDHAN Vishnu (IND,583) vs (Q) KISLYANSKIY Roman (RUS,1538)

Doubles
[R1] SHARAN Divij (IND)/ VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) bt (WC) JANAHI Hamad Abbas (UAE)/ SULTAN Ziad (KUW) 61 62

[QF] SHARAN Divij (IND)/ VARDHAN Vishnu (IND) vs (4) KONTINEN Henri (FIN)/ RIESCHICK Sebastian (GER)

Rohan Gajjar scored dominating win over 4th seed and top-550 Russian player ... Vivek also scored very fighting comeback victory ... Now they r facing eachother in next round.

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