Monday, June 01, 2009

Tennis News
At French Open 2009,

[QF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (5) Bruno Soares (BRA)/ Kevin Ullyett (ZIM) 62 76(5)

Lee and Lukas were moving towards very convincing win when they were serving for the match at 5-4 in second set against this tricky pair ... They had 3 match points 40-0 but Soares and Ullyett saved 4 match points to broke their serve to make it 5-all ... Then both pairs hold their serve to take set into tie-break.

Tie-break
BS/KU up with early mini-break
1-2 LD/LP broke back to bring it on serve
2-3 but again BS/KU up with mini-break
3-4 again LD/LP broke, again on serve
4-5 with holding both serves LD/LP first-time take lead in tie-break ... 5th match point
6-5 and they converted it to won match in 2 sets
7-5


Both pairs got 5 brak point chances, our pair converted 3 times and but Soares/ Ullyett converted only once ... Lee and Lukas scripted win in almost 1 hour and 30 minutes to move into semis ... In semis they will mostly play this year's hot pair on clay, the top-seed Nestor and Zimo.

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