Tennis News
At $2M Toray Pan Pacific open, Tokyo, Japan

[R1] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,65) l Jie Zheng (CHN,28) 75 26 36

Sania started with breaking Zheng's serve but Zheng immediately broken Sania's serve in next game to make it 1-all ... Sania again broke Zheng's serve in 7th game and hold her serve in 8th game to lead 5-3 ... But Zheng again broke Sania's serve in 10th game after holding her serve to make it 5-all ... Sania take important break in 11th game and hold her serve after saving break point to won first set in 44 minutes.

In second set also Sania started breking Zheng's serve but again Zheng broke Sania's serve to make it 1-all ... From here Zheng take control of the match, she again broke Sania's serve in 4th and 6th game to take 1-5 lead ... Sania broke her in next game but Zheng broke her back to won second set 2-6 ... In third set first break came into 5th game when Sania broke Zheng's serve to lead 3-2 but from here Zheng won next 4 game to won match in 2 hours 5 minutes ... In 7th game Sania had couple of break point chances which she didn't manage to convert it.

Sania had chances in this match but from second set Zheng take returning game to next level where Sania managed winning only 25% point on her first serve, which had high percentage of 62%.
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At $947,750 Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur

[R1] (Q) Rohan Bopanna (IND,452) vs Jose Acasuso (ARG,50)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (4) Simon Aspelin (SWE)/ Paul Hanley (AUS) 63 64

Terrific start for pairing of Aisam and Rohan who scored upset win over 4th seed pair ... I always feel they have ability to become great pair, reason is whenever they play together they always show their high potential as a pair.