Tennis News
At French Open 2010, Roland Garros, France

[Q1] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,109) bt Jiri Vanek (CZE,220) 26 62 64
[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,270) l (17) Joao Souza (BRA,128) 64 26 6-8

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

Jiri Vanek broke Somi's serve twice from 2 chances he got to won first set, other hand Somi failed to convert any break points ... But in second set Somi didn't give a single break point to Jiri but broke his serve twice in 5th and 7th games to won second set ... In third set in 2nd game Somi saved a break point and then he take important and only break of third set in 5th game ... After that both players hold their serve easily and that was enough for Somi to scored win ... Next he is facing Kiwi opponent who upset Australian Chris Guccione with easy victory.

Praksh had excellent match against higher ranked Brazilian ... He won first set with a single break but lost second set cheaply ... In third set he saved 3 break points at 3-all but Souza broke him in 13th game and then hold to won this match ... Still fighting performance by Prakash.
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At $498K Open de Nice Côte d’Azur, France (Red clay)

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Simon Greul (GER)/ Rogier Wassen (NED) 75 67(6) 10-4

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

Rohan and Aisam scored first round win in well contested match ... After winning first set closely in second set Rohan and Aisam saved 2 break points before taking set into tie-break ... In tie-break they were 1-5 down but after saving set points they managed to make it 6-all ... Then lost next 2 points to take match in super tie-break ... In super tie-break also they were mini-break down at 1-2 but from here they lost only 2 points and winning 9 points for comfortable super tie-break win ... In quarter-finals they r facing British pair, whom they defeated couple of weeks ago.
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At $35K+H Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,362) bt (WC) Tomas Cakl (CZE,UNR) 75 63

[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,362) vs (5) Andrej Martin (SVK,273)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Sadik Kadir (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) 63 64

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

Though former top-150 player Tomas Cakl was inactive but still good win by Vishnu in abroad challenger ... I m hoping upset win over Andrej Martin in next round.