Tennis News
At $450K 2010 Aircel Chennai Open, India

[R1] (WC) Rohan Bopanna (IND,392) l (4) Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI,21) 16 46
[R1] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,126) bt Rainer Schuettler (GER,85) 75 62
[R1] (Q) Prakash Amritraj (IND,212) l Michael Russell (USA,83) 36 16

[R2] (WC) Somdev Devvarman (IND,126) vs (4) Janko Tipsarević (SRB,38)

Excellent start for Somdev in Chennai Open ... In first set he was down with break at 2-5 but then he won next 5 games breaking Schuettler twice to won first set ... Second set Somi started positively breaking Schuettler in first game, then again he broke Schuettler in 5th game ... Converted 3rd match point to won match in 1 hour 36 mins ... After down by break Somi had excellent service games ... Somi converted 5 of 10 BP chances to dominating the match ... Next Somi facing tough opponent 4th seed Janko Tipsarević.

After showing good performance in qualifying surprisingly Prakash overpowered by American Michael Russell in 1 hour 6 minutes match ... He didn't give any chance to Kash.

Rohan couldn't do much against Wawrinka, who showed clinical performance to won match in 50 mins.
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At $220K ASB Classic, Auckland, New Zealand

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,57) bt Stefanie Voegele (SUI,75) 57 61 75

[R2] Sania Mirza (IND,57) vs (4) Francesca Schiavone (ITA,17)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) l (WC) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)/ Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 16 67(6)

Nice to see winning start in year 2010 ... Also good to see tight comeback victory against Swiss player ... Next round is usual tough one, lets hope she perform well.

New pair of Sania and Virginia Ruano Pascal started with loss ... They lost first set very easily and in second set they tried but couldn't overcome their wild card opponents.
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At $372.5K Brisbane International, Australia

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Carsten Ball (AUS)/ Sam Querrey (USA) 75 63

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Ashley Fisher (AUS)/ Stephen Huss (AUS)

Winning start for year 2010 for Lee and Lukas ... They finished this match in 2 sets and r facing Aussie pair in quarters.
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At $50K Quanzhou ITF Womens Tournament, China

[R1] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND,324) l (LL) Yi Zhong (CHN,948) 16 26

Doubles
[R1] Poojashree Venkatesha (IND)/ Ting Li (CHN) l (1) Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR)/ Zi Yan (CHN) 16 06

Chinese lucky loser Yi Zhong toyed Poojashree to score one-sided victory.