Tennis News
At US Open 2009, New York

[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt (7) Wesley Moodie (RSA)/ Dick Norman (BEL) 63 57 64
[QF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)/ Michael Llodra (FRA) 64 46 76(4)

[SF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA)
[SF] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs (5) Max Mirnyi (BLR)/ Andy Ram (ISR)

MXD
[SF] (1) Maheash Bhupathi (IND)/ Liazel Huber (USA) l Carly Gullickson (USA)/ Travis Parrott (USA) 36 46
[SF] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Cara Black (RSA) bt (5) Kevin Ullyett (ZIM)/ Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) 62 36 10(5)

[F] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Cara Black (RSA) vs Carly Gullickson (USA)/ Travis Parrott (USA)

Junior
[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,1) bt Sandro Ehrat (SUI,47) 60 61

[R3] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,1) vs Jack Sock (USA,1015)

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) l Evan King (USA)/ Denis Kudla (USA) 63 26 (6)10
[R1] John Morrissey (IRL)/ Sudanwa Sitaram (IND) bt Gonzales Austin (USA)/ Bjorn Fratangelo (USA) 46 63 10(5)

[R2] John Morrissey (IRL)/ Sudanwa Sitaram (IND) vs Marton Fucsovics (HUN)/ Cheng Peng Hsieh (TPE)

Yuki is crushing his opponents in early rounds ... Today he won in 44 minutes breaking his Swiss opponent's serve 6 times and saved only a single break point which he faced on his own serve ... With this performance Yuki is showing his improvement in last few months and his experience of playing on men's tour.

Lee and Lukas won first set little easily saving few break points on their serve and started with break in second set to up 2-0 ... But Norman and Moodie came back strongly breaking Lukas's serve ... They again saved break point on Norman's serve and broke Lukas's serve in 12th game to won second set ... In decider again Lee and Lukas started breaking Norman's serve in first game ... With another break on Norman's serve Lee and Lukas were leading 5-1 ... After Moodie comfortably holding his serve Lukas couldn't managed to hold his serve for win match ... Norman saved match point on his serve to make score 5-4 ... This time Lee served out to win match in 2 hours 10 minutes.

In semis they r facing top-seed Bryans ... To win match against them Lukas also need to serve better.

Mahesh and Mark won first set taking important break in 9th game ... In second set Mahesh and Mark were up with early break but Ljubicic and Llodra broke back to bring on serve ... Ljubicic and Llodra again broke them in 10th game to won second set ... Third set was very tight where no pair gave any chance to other but Mahesh and Mark used their experience in tie-break to moved into semis ... They will face pair of Mad Max and Ram who defeated 2nd seed Nestor and Zimo winning decider 6-0.

In MXD semis, Lee and Cara scripted another victory in super tie-break after again losing second set ... But Mahesh and Huber wasn't that lucky, they lost match in straight sets against unseeded American pair.

In Junior double top-seed pair of Yuki and Huang lost first round match in super tie-break after winning first set against local pair ... Sudanwa did reversal with his Irish partner defeating local pair after losing first set.
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At $50K+H Seville Challenger, Spain (yellow clay)


[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) bt Andoni Vivanco-Guzman (ESP)/ James Ward (GBR) W/O

[QF] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) vs Jose Checa-Calvo (ESP)/ Gabriel Trujillo-Soler (ESP)

Lucky break to Harsh and Huey, who recieved walkover in first round ... Next they r facing Spanish pair who defeated 4th seed pair in first round.