Tennis News
At 2010 Wimbledon Championship, London England

[Q3] Prakash Amritraj (IND,292) l Bernard Tomic ( AUS,252) 67(7) 36 46

Doubles
[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) bt (1) Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Mateusz Kowalczyk (POL) 76(8) 75

First set was very close, Prkash was serving well ... But Tomic dominated tie-break to won first set ... In second set Tomic take crucial service break in 6th game to won second set ... Was hoping comeback from Kash, but Tomic proved too strong and wrapped match in straight sets.

Somi and Treat were matching Poles from the start, they also created breaking opportunities but failed to break ... In tie-break they saved 3 set points from 3-6 down before winning hard fought first set ... In second set went on serve until 6-5 before Somi and Treat breaking Poles serve to qualify for maindraw.

So this year 5 Indians in Wimbledon doubles maindraw ... Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna, Harsh Mankad and Somdev Devvarman.
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At $450K Unicef Open, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

[QF] (1) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (WC) Thiemo deBakker (NED)/ Robin Haase (NED) 75 63

[SF] (1) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Benjamin Becker (GER)

Not had near perfect match, had 8 double faults ... Lee and Lukas served broken 3 times but they broke opponents 8 times to scored straight sets victory.
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At $10K Indonesia F3 Futures, Tegal

[QF] Vivek SHOKEEN (IND,966) l (1) Young-Jun KIM (KOR,289) 16 26
[QF] (4) Rohan GAJJAR (IND,470) l (Q) Ilia STARKOV (RUS,1231) 46 16
[QF] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND,439) l (8) Sergei KROTIOUK (RUS,573) 46 06

Doubles
[SF] KROTIOUK (RUS)/ MARQUIS (IND) l (1) DOAKMAIKLEE (THA)/ WACHIRAMANOWONG (THA) 26 46
[SF] (4) MALIK (IND)/ SHOKEEN (IND) l RUNGKAT (INA)/ THOMPSON (USA) 16 26

Scoreline told us bad for Indians.