Tennis News
At US Open 2009, New York

[R2] (Q) Somdev Devverman (IND,162) l (23) Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER,24) 36 46 60 26

[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt James Cerretani (USA)/ Lovro Zovko (CRO) 63 64
[R1] (14) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA) bt Ekaterina Dzehalevich (BLR)/ Renata Voracova (CZE) 57 75 61

[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP)
[R2] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Rik de Voest (RSA) vs Robert Kendrick (USA)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)
[R2] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Jesse Levine (USA)/ Ryan Sweeting (USA)
[R2] (14) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA) vs Gisela Dulko (ARG)/ Shahar Peer (ISR)

MXD
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (Canada) bt Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/ Ashley Fisher (AUS) 63 61
[R1] (2) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Patty Schnyder (SUI)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 64 36 11(9)

[R2] (2) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Flavia Pennetta (ITA)/ Dusan Vemic (SRB)

Second set was close but Somdev blanked Kohlschreiber in third set ... We should give credit to Kohlschreiber, who dominated first and fourth sets ... Still very encouraging performance by Buji ... Who will climb around 140 in new ATP ranking.

Match was very close, check points difference Somdev lost points battle by 111-116 ... He also managed to convert only 4 of the 20 break point chances he created ... But I m very happy with his performance, he is showing he can compete with top-50 players.

After losing first set 57 Sania and Schiavone were 3-5 down but they made comeback to win next 4 games ... Third set they totally dominated to move into third.

Mahesh and Mark started with very clinical win against Cerretani and Zovko ... In MXD Sania and Nestor scored very one-sided victory over their opponent ... In other match Lee and Cara struggled against tricky pair of Schnyder and Moodie ... After winning first set Schnyder and Moodie dominated the match ... They won second set and in super tie-break Lee and Cara were leading 5-1 but again Schnyder and Moodie made comeback ... But Lee and Cara managed to win crucial last couple of points to scored win.
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At $10K India F9 Futures, New Delhi

At $10K India F9 Futures, New Delhi

Final
(2) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) bt (6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN) 63 61

Semi Finals
(6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN) bt Ashutosh SINGH (IND) 16 64 63
(2) Young-Jun KIM (KOR) bt (4) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 62 62

Kim won 2nd title in 3 weeks easily beating his Japanese opponent.

Before that Indian challenge got over in singles semis ... Ashutosh managed to stretch it to third set bur Ranjeet lost in easy 2 sets against Kim.

Rohan Gajjar won doubles title with Britisher Chris Eaton beating top-seed pair of Vishnu Vardhan and Ashutosh Singh in 2 tie-breaks, 76(6) 76(3).