Saturday, September 05, 2009

Tennis News
At US Open 2009, New York

[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP) 62 63
[R2] Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Rik de Voest (RSA) l Robert Kendrick (USA)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 26 63 57
[R2] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) bt Jesse Levine (USA)/ Ryan Sweeting (USA) 75 62

[R3] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Jurgen Melzer (AUT)
[R3] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Dudi Sela (ISR)

MXD
[R2] (1) Liezel Huber(USA)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) bt Jill Craybas (USA)/ Eric Butorac (USA) 63 63
[R2] (2) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Flavia Pennetta (ITA)/ Dusan Vemic (SRB) 64 64

Junior
[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,1) vs Jordan Cox (USA,38)
[R1] Sudanwa Sitaram (IND,72) vs Alexander Domijan (USA,17)

Very comfortable win by Lee and Lukas over Spanish pair to moved into third round ... This is good performance by them as they entered into this US Open playing only one tournament togethar on hard court after Wimbledon.

In second set Lee and Lukas were 3-0 up and had couple of break point chances to move 4-0 but they messed those and gave chance to Spanish team to comeback on serve at 4-3 ... Again they broke opponent in nexst game to win set and match.

Mahesh and Mark also won comfortably in second set after winning first set tightly ... In MXD our seeded pairs had easy passage to next round.

Junior draw is out ... Yuki playing his second junior grandslam of the year after missing French Open and Wimbledon due to injury ... He is facing local boy in first round ... Sudanwa is only other Indian in singles draw, he is facing top-20 local boy in first round.

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