Tennis News
At $2.6M Miami ATP Masters, USA

Doubles Final
(3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 62 75

[SF] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) bt (8) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 76(4) 64

Lee and Lukas lifted Miami ATP Masters with straight sets victory over Mahesh and Max ... Before this no one from India won this title ... Before this Lee was runner-up at the Sony Ericsson Open in 2003 (with Rikl) and 2007 (with Damm) ... This is Lee and Lukas's first title of the 2010, they were runner-up in Brisbane and Dubai earlier this season.

Lee and Lukas started well taking an early 2-0 lead after winning sudden-death points at deuce and after that they didn't lose control to won first set easily ... In second set also they were up with early break but Mahesh and Max broke back to make it 3-all ... Again Lee and Lukas take important break at 5-all and hold their serve to won this Masters title ... Lee was his typically aggressive self at the net.

Lukas Dlouhy - “Playing with (Lee), it's always great because he has my back always. When I'm struggling with something, he's always with me on the same side and always tells me that nothing happened. We make it like a team. So it always helps you when you know that you are together, you are like brothers. That's the magic of the team, I think.”

Leander Paes - “What's great actually about doing well this week is there's no pressure now for the rest of the clay court season. We've got to a final in Brisbane and got to quarters at the Aussie Open. Now there's no pressure. Now we're just playing for cream on the top.”
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At $35K+H Napoli Challenger, Italy

Doubles Final
(1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Dustin Brown (JAM)/ Jesse Witten (USA) 67(4) 57

Rohan failed to lift 2nd challenger doubles title in 2 weeks ... He and Aisam lost very closely fought final against Dustin and Jesse ... But still good performance by Rohan and Aisam on clay, next week they r playing in Grand Prix Hassan II at Casablanca.
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At $$442.5K US Men's Clay Court Championships, Houston, USA (Red (clay)

[Q1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,120) bye

[Q2] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,120) vs Jose de Armas (VEN, 415)

This week Somdev is 2nd seed in qualifying at US clay court ATP tournament ... In second round he is facing Venezuelean, who defeated Somi on clay in 2004 US futures, but currently Somi is playing on lot more higher level.
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At $10K India F3 Futures, Vijayawada

Singles Final
(7) Rupesh ROY (IND,595) bt (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,360) 16 64 75

Doubles Final
(1) Divij SHARAN (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 26 63 10-3

[SF] (7) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt (5) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 64 64
[SF] (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) 75 76(2)

Rupesh lifted his first ITF futures singles title beating more than 225 places higher rank countryman Vishnu Vardhan ... At Kolkata he missed chance after losing final to Nathan but in third week Rupesh lifted title with excellent performance ... Vishnu won doubles title with Divij.