Thursday, November 26, 2009

Tennis News
At ATP World Tour Finals, London, England

Group B
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 36 46

So with this loss against Bryans chances of reaching semis at ATP World Tour Finals got over for Lee and Lukas ... Again they struggled with returning game and in this match Lee was totally off-color ... This was their second consecutive loss in straight sets ... In other group match Kubot and Marach defeated Ram and Mirnyi in super tie-break saving 3 match points.
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At $125K Helsinki Challenger, Finland

[QF] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul_Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Frank Moser (GER)/ Rogier Wassen (NED) 76(2) 64

Another good win over experienced players for Rohan and Asiam to moved semis of this big challenger.
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At $10K Malaysia F5 Futures, Kuala Lumpur

Doubles
[SF] (1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) l (4) BETAU (BLR)/ ZHYRMONT (BLR) 46 46
[SF] (2) GAJJAR (IND)/ O'BRIEN (IRL) bt JAYA (MAS)/ SI (MAS) 75 76(5)

[F] (2) GAJJAR (IND)/ O'BRIEN (IRL) vs (4) BETAU (BLR)/ ZHYRMONT (BLR)

Only Gajjar with his partner reached in doubles final.
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Chess News
At The FIDE World Chess Cup 2009, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia - November 20th to December 15th 2009

Round Second
Krishnan Sasikiran (IND) vs Etienne Bacrot (FRA) 0-2
R1: 0-1 R2: 0-1

Surya Shekhar Ganguly (IND) l Hao Wang (CHN) 0-2
R1: 0-1 R2: 0-1

Sandipan Chanda (IND) l Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS) 0-2
R1: 0-1 R2: 0-1

No fight back from any one, so again Indian challenge got over in second round.

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