Thursday, March 24, 2011

Tennis News
At $3.645M Sony Ericsson Open, Miami, Florida, USA

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,73) bt Potito Starace (ITA,47) 62 64
[R1] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,99) bt Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP,62) 62 64

[R2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,73) vs (31) Milos Raonic (CAN,34)
[R2] (Q) Sania Mirza (IND,99) vs (24) Maria Kirilenko (RUS,27)

Doubles
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Elena Vesnina (RUS) vs (5) Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Jie Zgeng (CHN)
[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Eric Butorac (USA)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (AHO)
[R1] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)/ Rajeev Ram (USA)

After good week at Indian Wells Masters Somdev started confidently ... In first set Sommy broke Starace serve twice to won first set comfortably ... In this despite only 50% first serve percetage Somi didn't face a break point ... In second set Sommy again take early break to lead 3-2 but this time Starace broke him in 6th game to make it 3-all ... Sommy take crucial break in 9th game and then hold his serve to complete victory ... Next Sommy is facing Canadian young rising star Milos Raonic.

Sania also started confidently against Parra Santonja ... She broke Parra Santonja in 3rd and 7th games to won first set without facing break point ... In second set also she didn't lose focus ... Sania broke Parra Santonja in 7th game but lost her service in next game to make it 4-all ... But again Sania take break in 9th game and hold her serve to finish match in straight sets ... Sania next facing 24th seed Russian Maria Kirilenko.

In doubles our both pairs r again top draw and can face eachother in semis ... Rohan and Aisam r 7th seeds and they can face Bryans in quarters but before that they r having tricky first round against Rajeev Ram and Kohlschreiber.

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At $15K India F2 Futures, Kolkata

Singles Quarter Finals
(6) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND) l (1) Adam KELLNER (HUN) 26 46
(Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) bt (7) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 57 76(2) 36
(5) Roko KARANUSIC (CRO) bt Tristan-Samuel WEISSBORN (AUT) 61 61
(8) Nicolas REISSIG (AUT) bt Jaan-Frederik BRUNKEN (GER) 67(2) 63 64

Doubles semi Finals
(3) NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt PRASHANTH (IND)/ ROY (IND) 63 64
(2) SHARAN (IND) / VARDHAN (IND) bt (4) BHAMBRI (IND)/ VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 63 60

Yuki gave good fight after losing first set but sad to see he lost 6 games in a row after leading 4-0.

Other hand terrific performance by young Kaza against experienced Ranjeet ... He produced creditable fightback to won this match and book his match against top-seed.

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