Tennis News
At US Open 2009, New York

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,74) l (10) Flavia Pennetta (ITA,10) 06 06

[R1] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Rik de Voest (RSA) bt (14) Jordan Kerr (AUS)/ Ashley Fisher (AUS) 76(4) 64

Today Sania was humiliated by Flavia Pennetta ... She was got double bagels and I don't remember when last time she lost with such scoreline.

Onlookers reported Sania was getting killed in this match as she wasn't manage to keep ball on the court ... Too many unforced errors and Pennetta only needed to keep ball on the court as Sania was taking care of giving free points to her ... Sania lost first set in no-time ... Second set wasn't different, Sania didn't learn from her first set mistake ... And kept hitting ball all over the park ... Sania lost match in 50 minutes ... Pennetta won 54 points and from those 28 points were unforced errors from Sania ... This info definitely sum up the whole match.

I still believe Sania is better player than score suggest ... I really wish she does not demoralised with this defeat but she should take break from the tour ... And go to square one to remove these basic flaws from the game and improve fitness.
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At $35K+H Como Challenger, Italy (clay)

[QF] (3) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Huey (PHI) bt Ilya Bellyaev (RUS)/ Evgeni Donskoy (RUS) 76(2) 62

Harsh and Huey scored another good win against Russian pair ... Good showing on clay by our pair.
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At $10K India F9 Futures, New Delhi


Quarter Finals
(6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN) bt (Q) Karunuday SINGH (IND) 26 62 75
Ashutosh SINGH (IND) bt (5) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 46 63 62
(4) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (8) Rupesh ROY (IND) 61 62
(2) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) bt Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 36 64 61

Our only 2 players reached into semis .. Ranjeet scored very easy win over Rupesh ... Ashutosh defeated Rohan in 3 sets ... Jeevan won first set against Korean but then Kim played solid game to won next 2 ... Karunuday played excellent match against Kento Takeuchi ... He won first set easily and after losing 2nd set he fought well into third ... But Takeuchi won this match and taking full advantage of yesterday's lucky escape.