Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[SF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (1) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 76(4) 76(5)

[F] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Wesley Moodie (RSA)/ Dick Norman (BEL)
Lee and Lukas scored their first victory over this current WR #1 pair, Nestor and Zimo ... They won this match in almost 2 hours battle ... Though both sets went to tie-breaks still both pair had ample opportunities to break opposite pair services ... Lee/ Lukas had 12 chances and Nestor/Zimo had 9 chances but both managed to break opponent's serve only once ... Match was lot closer as Lee and Lukas won 90 points in the match other hand Nestor and Zimo won 88 ... Terrific hard fought victory for Lee and Lukas ... After 1999 and 2001 titles win this is first time Lee reached final of French Open ... In the final they r facing pairing of South African Wesley Moodie and Belgian Dick Norman, who surprised all to reach final ... They defeated Bryans in the semis in 3 sets after lsong first set 6-0.
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At $50K Nottingham Challenger, Great Britain (on grass)

[R2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,161) bt (7) Chris Guccione (AUS,137) 76(5) 76(4)
[R2] Rajeev Ram (USA,168) l (2) Robert Kendrick (USA,86) 67(1) 46
[R2] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Sergei Bubka (UKR) 5-4 walkover due to knee injury

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,161) vs (Q) Joshua Goodall (GBR,217)

Doubles
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jim Thomas (USA) l (3) Eric Butorac (USA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) W.O.

Kash produced exciting win over another grass court specialist ... Superb 2 tie-break sets victory for him ... But Rohan gave walkover to Sergei Bubka and his doubles opponents due to his old knee injury, hoping nothing serious injury scare for Rohan.
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At $10K New Dehli II, India

Singles Quarter Finals
(1) Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt (6) Parija MALOO (IND) 75 62
(Q) Soon-Mi SEO (KOR) bt (8) Ying-Ying DUAN (CHN) 60 Retd
Chun-Yan HE (CHN) bt (WC) Rashmi TELTUMBDE (IND) 67(6) 64 61
(2) Anastasia MALHOTRA (JPN) bt Ting LI (CHN) 61 61

Doubles Semi Finals
(1) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND)/ Ankita BHAMBRI (IND) bt (3) Xi BAI (CHN)/ Ting LI (CHN) 64 57 14(12)
Soon-Mi SEO (KOR)/ Jung-Yoon SHIN (KOR) bt Yue YUAN (CHN)/ Ying-Ying DUAN (CHN) W.O.

Ankita scored straight sets victory over Parija to move into semis ... Young Rashmi also started well winning first set against her Chinese opponent but in last 2 sets her opponent was too strong to handle ... In doubles Bhambris needed to fight hard until last point against Chinese opponents to scripted exciting victory.
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At $10K Egypt F8, Ain Elskhona-Suiz (clay)

[R2] (Q) Ronak MANUJA (IND,1464) l Massimo CAPONE (ITA,1002) 16 26

Doubles
[QF] Ronak MANUJA (IND)/ James LEMKE (AUS) l (4) Mikal STATHAM (NZL)/ Adam EL MIHDAWY (USA) 36 46

Lost easily against Italian clay courter.