Monday, June 29, 2009

Tennis News
At the Wimbledon 2009,

[R3] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 64 57 76(3) 60

MXD
[R3] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Cara Black (ZIM) bt (13) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Sania Mirza (IND) 62 67(2) 63

Boys Singles
[R1] Sudanwa Sitaram (IND,93) bt Karim-Mohamed Maamoun (EGY,50) 63 46 62
[R2] Sudanwa Sitaram (IND,93) vs (3) (WC) Bernard Tomic (AUS,157)

Excellent match between Mahesh/ Mark and Prakash/ Aisam ... Both pair gave their all to played excellent tennis ... Mahesh and Mark won first set with single break ... In second set Prakash and Aisam take crucial break in 12th game on Mark's serve to won it ... Third set went till wire but Mahesh and Mark used their experience to won tie-break easily ... During this time Aisam got injured, he take medical timeout for his injured back after third set ... But after that he wasn't same player on the court and Mahesh/ Mark take full advantage of it to won set and match without dropping single game in 4th set ... We will definetly going to see more of Prakash and Aisam partnership in future.

But Mahesh wasn't lucky with Sania in mixed doubles ... They had 3rd round match against top-seed Lee and Cara ... Lee and Cara won first set easily with two breaks ... In second set Mahesh and Sania managed to turn table on them in tie-break but again in third set Lee and Cara won this match with a single break.

Sudanwa broke his Egyptian opponent's serve in 7th and 9th games to won first set easily but Karim-Mohamed broke Sudanwa's serve in 9th game to won second set but Sudanwa also had couple of break points in 10th game ... But Sudanwa won match in 1 hour and 24 minutes breaking his opponent's serve twice in the third set ... Next he is meeting Australian Bernard Tomic, who is hot favorite for the Junior Wimbledon singles title.

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