Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Tennis News
At 2010 French Open, Roland Garros, Paris

[Q2] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,109) bt Daniel King-Turner (NZL,248) 61 62

[Q3] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,109) vs Adrian Mannarino (FRA,289)

Somi broke Daniel's serve twice in both set to won his second qualifying round ... First set Somi dominated but in second set score was one-sided still games were very close ... In the match Somi saved 6 break points and converted 4 points from 9.

In end convincing win over Kiwi player by Somi as he needed only 72 mins to complete it ... Hopefully he will cross last hurdle to qualify for grand slam maindraw.

He is having tough final qualifying round against local player, who was WR #88 in September 2009 (he was out for 6 months due to injury) ... Somi need to play solid tennis to overcome Mannarino.

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At $498K Open de Nice Côte d’Azur, France (Red clay)

[QF] (1) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) l Andreas Seppi (ITA)/ Potito Starace (ITA) 36 36
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Colin Fleming (GBR)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) 63 62

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Dusan Vemic (SRB)/ Leos Friedl (CZE)

Another very comfortable win over higher ranked British pair by Rohan and Aisam to moved into semis.

Very tame loss for top-seed, with this early loss they will be less prepared for French Open.

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At $35K+H Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,362) l (5) Andrej Martin (SVK,273) 61 46 26

Doubles
[QF] (3) Sadik Kadir (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Zhe Li (CHN) 26 46

Vishnu started with bang winning first set convincingly but then in next 2 sets his challenge was fizzle out ... But good fighting performance against top-300 player that also in abroad challenger from Vishnu.

In doubles Purav and Sadik lost easily against Chinese pair in quarter-finals.

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