Tennis News
At $500K South Africa Tennis Open, Johannesburg

[QF] (5) Rajeev Ram (USA,84) l (3) Feliciano Lopez (ESP,46) 67(1) 36
[QF] Somdev Devvarman (IND,162) l (2) David Ferrer (ESP,18) 16 36

Doubles
[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt (3) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Eric Butorac (USA) 76(5) 64

Ferrer broke Somi's serve in 2nd and 6th game in first set ... Though score looking one-sided still Somi had 5 break point chances which he couldn't converted in the first ... In second set Somi was playing much better on his first serve but Ferrer broke him back to back game in 5th and 7th game ... But Somi broke Ferrer when he was serving for the match at 2-5 ... Ferrer again broke him next to won the match ... In end point won 39 pts to 58 pts in the match, so Ferrer dominated Somi fairly well.

This was tough match but good to see Somi managed to create chances ... Also its good to hear that he is working on his aggresive game, so hopefully we will see more good performance from him.

Somi had relatively good tournament after reaching quarters and again start moving towards his best singles ranking.

Really impressive result for Rohan and Aisam to beat 3rd seed pair ... Ram and Eric Butorac were on a good form as at AO they reached quarters before losing to Bryans in close match.
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At the Asia/Oceania zone Group II , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Group A
India bt Malaysia 3-0

Poojashree Venkantesha bt Chin-Bee Khoo 61 61
Sania Mirza bt Jawairiah Noordin 61 60
Sanaa Bhambri/ Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Chin-Bee Khoo/ Jawairiah Noordin 76(4) 62

India scored another expected comfortable win ... It was surprise to see Malaysian pair stretched our pair in double first set.

Now India plays important match against Kyrgyzstan on Saturday for the playoff to make it to the Group 1.