Tennis News
At the Wimbledon 2009,

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,78) l (28) Sorana Cirstea (ROU,27) 46 46

Doubles
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Kevin Anderson (RSA) 67(4) 64 75 75
[R1] (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (16) Stephen Huss (AUS)/ Ross Hutchins (GBR) 64 67(12) 64 36 63
[R1] Rajeev Ram(USA)/ Lovro Zovko(CRO) l (11) Marcelo Melo(BRA)/ Andre Sa(BRA) 46 67(4) 36

Yesterday Prakash and Aisam lost chance of finished first round match ... But today they came out with determination ... They were holding their service games authoratively and managed to put pressure on Huss and Hutchins's service game ... Most important and only break of 5th set came in 8th game and then Prakash and Aisam hold their service game easily to pulled off terrific win over seeded pair ... This was Prakash's first win in grandslam, although its in doubles.

Mark and Mahesh were up with early break Som and Kevin broke opponent's serve in 7th game to bring back match on serve ... In tie break again Mark and Mahesh was up with early mini-break but Som and Kevin won consecutive 4 points to won tie-break 7-4 .. Great stuff by them against such experienced pair.

In second set Mahesh and Mark broke Som and Kevin'e serve in 5th game, also saved break point chances on their serve to won second set with that single break.

In third set Mahesh and Mark broken Som and Kevin's serve in 11th game to won it.

In fourth set Som and Kevin were up with early break, in 7th game Mahesh and Mark created opportunities to break Som and Kevin' serve and managed to break ... In 10th game Mahesh and Mark saved 1 set point on their serve and then Mahesh and Mark take crucial break in 11th game and served to win this match in almost 3 and half hours.

Fighting performance by qualifiers, Mahesh and Mark won this match on their experience of winning crucial points, total points won difference was only 11 points in favor of Mahesh and Mark, 159-148.

In first set Sania played terrible 5th game on his serve and Sorana take advantage to break Sania's serve ... With this single break Sorana won first set in 40 minutes.

Second set started with Sorana breaking Sania's serve in first game but Sania immediately broke Sorana's serve in next game ... Then again broke Sorana's serve in 4th game to lead 3-1 but again lost serve due to erratic play to back on serve ... Sorana take crucial break in 9th game and hold her serve to win match in 1 hour and 22 minutes.

Sania had chances in this match but she lost due to her erratic game and committed numerous unforced errors ... Poor game by Sania.
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At $10K Malaysia F2 Futures, Kuala Lumpur

[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,598) bt (7) Jae-Sung An (KOR,510) 57 64 64
[R2] (Q) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,772) l (PR) Phillip King (USA,UNR) 46 36

[QF] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,598) vs (1) Luigi D'Agord (ITA,386)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Mohammad Ghareeb (KUW) l Arnau Brugues-Davi (ESP)/ Luigi D'Agord (ITA) W/O
[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Vivek Shokeen (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) 76(1) 36 10(5)

[SF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Ti Chen (TPE)/ Phillip King (USA)

Vishnu scored very fighting comeback win against top-500 type Korean player ... Good win but next he is facing top-seed Italian ... Go vishnu.
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At $10K Thailand Futures, Bangkok

[R2] (8) Parija MALOO (IND,626) l Sarah-Rebecca SEKULIC (GER,718) 26 06
[R2] (5) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND,586) bt Yumi MIYAZAKI (JPN,762) 64 62
[R2] (2) Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND,573) l Tomoko DOKEI (JPN,713) 26 46

[QF] (5) Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND,586) vs (4) Ai YAMAMOTO (JPN,546)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Ankita BHAMBRI (IND)/ Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) bt Rushmi CHAKRAVARTHI (IND)/ Chun-Yan HE (CHN) 57 64 10(8)
[QF] Parija MALOO (IND)/ Tomoko TAIRA (JPN) l (3) Nungnadda WANNASUK (THA)/ Ai YAMAMOTO (JPN) 57 16

[SF] (1) Ankita BHAMBRI (IND)/ Sanaa BHAMBRI (IND) vs Tomoko DOKEI (JPN)/ Mi YOO (KOR)

Only Sanaa managed to win against her Japanese opponent otherwise usual disappointing stuff from our womens players.
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At $15K Ireland F2 Futures, Dublin

[QF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Raven Klaasen (RSA) l Charles-Antoine Brezac (FRA)/ Vincent Stouff (FRA) 67(5) 26