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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles Final
(1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE) 75 63

Leander wins 2010 Australian Open mixed doubles title with Cara Black ... So with that Leander Paes equalled Indian record of maximum grandslam titles win by Mahesh Bhupathi, 11 each ... This was Leander's 5th mixed doubles title and 2nd with Cara Black, with whom he lifted 2008 US Open mixed doubles title.

In first set both pairs traded couple of breaks early but Lee and Cara take important break at 5-all breaking Makarova's serve and then Cara first time hold her serve in the match to won first set ... Second set started the way Lara and Cara wanted ... They broke Levinsky's serve in first game and take control of the match ... Then they never were under pressure on their own serve but kept pressure on Levinsky and Makarova's serve ... They again broke Levinsky's serve in 9th game to won match and championship.

In the final Lee played exceptional tennis ... He was as usual best near net in making volleys and quick hands ... He served well, didn't face single break point on his serve ... In the final he lost only 3 points on his serve.

Match summary
First set
Levinsky hold on luv
0-1 Lee hold on luv
1-1 Cara and Lee broke Makarova's serve on luv
2-1 Cara serve got broken on luv Poor serving from her with 1 DF
2-2 broke Levinsky's serve @30 with mis-hit from him ... Lee played couple of exceptional points near net
3-2 Lee hold @15
4-2 Makarova hold @15 ... Some big hitting from Makarova from back of the court
4-3 again Cara's serve broken @15 .. Makarova playing excellent returns
4-4 Levinsky hold @15 .. Lee is serving to remain in the first set
4-5 Lee hold @15 ... Important game as after that Cara will be serving
5-5 Lee and Cara responded breaking Makarova's serve @15 ... Cara need to hold her serve first time in the set to win it
6-5 and Cara hold on luv to captured first set ... Both cara and Lee played very good net game.
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Second set
excellent start for second set ... Inspirational game from both to break Levinsky's serve on luv
1-0 consolidate the break with Lee holding his serve on luv with his usual quick hands near the net
2-0 Makarova hold after saving 2 break points
2-1 Cara hold @15 ... Lee was in usual best near the net
3-1 Levinsky hold @30
3-2 Lee hold @15
4-2 Makarova hold @30
4-3 Cara hold @15 ... Lee was lightening quick on the net, showing amazing quick hands near the net ... One game away from the title
5-3 broke Levinsky's serve after duece when Levinsky forehand shot went wide ... @40-30 Lee played amazing point to make it duece ... So Lee and Cara won Australian Open 2010 mixed doubles title.
6-3
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At $500K South Africa Tennis Open, Johannesburg

[Q1] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND,202) bye
[Q1] Rohan Bopanna (IND,423) l Benjamin Janse Van Rensburg (RSA,1351) 36 57

[Q2] (3) Prakash Amritraj (IND,202) vs Roman Valent (SUI,534)

[R1] Somdev Devvarman (IND,162) vs (6) Xavier Malisse (BEL,93)
[R1] (5) Rajeev Ram (USA,84) vs (WC) Rik De Voest (RSA,239)

Doubles
[R1] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ James Cerretani (USA) vs (WC) Ruan Roelofse (RSA)/ Nikala Scholtz (RSA)
[R1] (3) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Eric Butorac (USA) vs Philipp Marx (GER)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Yves Allegro (SUI)/ Marcc Chiudinelli (SUI)

By far this was poor result for Rohan ... May be we should rethink about our Davis Cup combination against Russia ... Somi having tough first round match.

In doubles, our all pairs r in bottom draw ... Prakash and his partner can meet Rajeev and Burtoc if they wins their respective first round matches.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (7) Lisa Raymond (USA)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 67(6) 76(5) 10-7

[F] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE)

Lee and Cara pulled off very close MXD semi-final ... Lee and Cara lost first set in tie-break with score 6-8 ... In second set early they were couple of breaks down and score was 0-3 ... But then they broke back to make it 1-3 and again they broke when opponents were serving for the match at 4-5 ... This time in tie-break they prevailed ... And in super tie-break they controlled from the start with early mini-break and were up 9-4 ... Converted 4th match point to moved in another MXD final.

They will face unseeded Russian-Czech pair, who surprised all with their performance.
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At $50K Honolulu Challenger, Hawaii, USA

Doubles
[QF] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) l Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Go Soeda (JPN) 46 62 (6)10
[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) l Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) 26 26

Our both pairs lost in quarter-finals ... Purav and Adil couldn't produced much fight in their match ... Harsh and Treat tried fightback after losing first set but lost in super tie-break against Japanese pair.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[QF] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) l Ivo Karlovic (CRO)/ Dusan Vemic(SRB) 36 46
[QF] Eric Butorac (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) l (1) Bob Bryan (USA)/ Mike Bryan (USA) 57 64 67(2)

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (8) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Andy Ram (ISR) 64 63

[SF] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (7) Lisa Raymond (USA)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA)


Lee and Lukas didn't fired up today against big servers ... In both sets they lost their serve early and didn't able to break opponent's serve ... In end tame loss.

In mixed doubles top-seed pair of Lee and Cara scored comfortable straight sets victory over seeded pair ... In semis they r facing experienced doubles players, Moodie and Raymond.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Australian Open 2010 - Junior

[R2] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) l (3) Daria Gavrilova (RUS,4) 06 26

After losing easily in the first set Rishika produced some fight in second set.
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At $50K Honolulu Challenger, Hawaii, USA

Doubles
[R1] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) vs Marco Crugnola (ITA)/ Andrea Stoppini (ITA)
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs (WC) Jan-Michael Gambill (USA)/ Michael McClune (USA)

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R3] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt John Isner (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA) 63 75

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/ Rik De Voest (RSA) 64 62

[QF] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (8) Elena Vesnina (RUS)/ Andy Ram (ISR)

Australian Open 2010 - Junior
[R1] Vaidik Munshaw (IND)/ Chuhan Wang (CHN) l (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) 26 67(3)

[R1] Yuki Ito (JPN)/ Rishika Sunkara (IND) l (6) Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)/ Mai Grage (DEN) 76(5) 26 (6)10

After winning first set easily big servers American stretched Lee and Lukas in second but they won in 2 sets to moved into quarters.

Lee and Cara won first set with a single break ... In second set they broke opponent's serve in first game and take early 2-0 lead ... And they again broke opponent's serve in 7th game to take 5-2 lead ... ... They easily hold their serve to scored comfortable win to move in to MXD quarter-final ... Next they r facing 8th seed pair of Vesnina and Ram .. So that also means Lee is in quarters of Men's doubles and Mixed doubles.

After losing first set easily, Munshaw and Wang were up 3-0 in second ... Good fighting performance by Ito and Rishika, they lost in super tie-break.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[QF] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) l (7) Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 46 36

[R3] Eric Butorac (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt Leonardo Mayer(ARG)/ Horacio Zeballos(ARG) 67(3) 64 76(3)

Australian Open 2010 - Junior

[R1] (13) Arthur De Greef (BEL,22) l Vaidik Munshaw (IND,81) 46 67(5)
[R1] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) bt (Q)Miyu Kato (JPN,119) 64 62

[R2] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) vs (3) Daria Gavrilova (RUS,4)

[R1] Vaidik Munshaw (IND)/ Chuhan Wang (CHN) vs (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN)
[R1] Yuki Ito (JPN)/ Rishika Sunkara (IND) vs (6) Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)/ Mai Grage (DEN)

Expected result, Sania and Virginia lost in straight sets against 7th seed ... But Rajeev Ram and Butorac r in doubles quarters beating Argentinian pair in tight 3 sets.

Rishika Sunkara scored good upset win over fellow Japanese qualifier in straight sets to moved in to second round ... In second round she has tough challenge of 15 yrs old Russian Daria Gavrilova, last year who was finalist at Junior Roland Garros and reached Junior US Open semis ... She also won Eddie Herr International Junior Tennis Championships in December.

Good fighting performance by Vaidik Munshaw against Belgian De Greef, who was a runner up at Orange bowl last month.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[R2] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Lucas Arnold Ker (ARG)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 75 63

[R3] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs John Isner (USA)/ Sam Querrey (USA)

Australian Open 2010 - Junior

[R1] (13) Arthur De Greef (BEL,22) vs Vaidik Munshaw (IND,81)
[R1] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) vs (Q)Miyu Kato (JPN,119)

Good straight sets victory by Lee and Lukas in second round ... Next they r facing big server Americans, tricky match.

Rishika having some chance against her Japanese opponent to move in to second round.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R2] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) l (11) Simon Aspelin (SWE)/ Paul Hanley (AUS) 16 36
[R2] Eric Butorac (USA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) bt (7) Mariusz Fyrstenberg (POL)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) 62 36 76(2)

[R2] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) bt Timea Bacsinszky (SUI)/ Tathiana Garbin (ITA) 76(3) 63

[QF] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) vs (7) Alisa Kleybanova (RUS)/ Francesca Schiavone (ITA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Sophie Ferguson (AUS)/ Carsten Ball (AUS) 75 75

Sania and Virginia scored straight sets victory in second round ... First set they won in tie-break but they controlled second set to move in to pre-quarter finals.

Today Somi AGAIN struggled with his serve and seeded Aussie pair take full advantage of it for easy victory over Indian pair ... Rajeev and his partner Butorac scored upset win over seeded Polish team.

Top-seed Lee and Cara needed their experience to pulled tight win over local pair in first round of MXD.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza, the defending champions at the 2010 Australian Open, withdrew due to Mahesh's torn calf muscle injury.

Australian Open 2010 - Junior Qualifying

[Q2] Sumeet Shinde (IND,179) l (10) Bruno Semenzato (BRA,136) 57 26
[Q2] Saurabh Singh (IND,174) vs (4) Jaden Grinter (NZL,93)
[Q2] (5) Sai Kartik Nakireddi (IND,105) l Jea Moon Lee (KOR,179) 67(4) 36

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,183) l (1) Marianne Jodoin (CAN,74) 16 36
[Q2] Natasha Palha (IND,274) l (9) Abigail Tere-Apisah (PNG,131) 36 46
[Q2] Rashmi Teltumbde (IND,267) l Alexandra Nancarrow (AUS,UNR) 57 36
[Q2] Prerna Bhambri (IND,186) l Elizaveta Ianchuk (UKR,1053) 67(4) 46
[Q2] Sharmada Balu (IND,159) l Li-Yun Tan (SIN,254) 46 46
[Q2] Aishwarya Agrawal (IND,221) l (6) Eri Hozumi (JPN,121) 64 26 26
[Q2] (10) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) bt Stefani Stojic (AUS,UNR) 61 62

[Q3] ((10) Rishika Sunkara (IND,132) bt (7) Ursa Jeman (SLO,122) 46 63 64

Looking at junior qualifying scores it look massacre of our players on tennis court.

At last some good news, Rishika Sunkara qualified for main draw with comeback win over Ursa Jeman.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) l Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) 64 16 67(6)
[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) bt James Cerretani (USA)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA) 57 64 75

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Sophie Ferguson (AUS)/ Carsten Ball (AUS)
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs Carly Gullickson (USA)/ Bernard Tomic (AUS)

Mixed doubles draw is out .. Tough draw for Sania and Mahesh to defend their title ... They can face top-seed Lee and Cara in second round if both pairs win their respective first round matches.

Somi and Kash fought hard from the start ... Their American opponents were experienced doubles players and our pair needed to fight for winning every point ... After 1 set all in third set, American pair broke Somi's serve in 4th game to take lead but our pair immediately broke their service in next game ... At 3-4 on Somi's serve our pair saved 3 break points from 0-40 to won that game ... Again in 10th game while serving for staying in the match they were down 3 match point, 0-40, on Kash's serve ... This time also they saved those match points to won this game ... Immediately in next game they broke American pair's serve and then while serving for the match they converted 4th match point to won match ... Excellent victory for them.

Bops and Aisam started well winning first set with single break ... But Rik De Voest and Scott Lipsky came back strongly winning second set ... Third set went to tie-break as both pairs were serving well ... In tie-break until 6-all nobody gave mini-break ... On Rohan's serve Rik De Voest and Scott Lipsky got mini-break to lead 6-7 and they promptly converted this match point to won this match.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,57) l (26) Aravane Rezai (FRA,23) 46 26

Sania played aggressive game in the first set ... Her serve was good and with only single break Aravane Rezai won first set ... In second set Sania broke Aravane Rezai's serve in second game to lead 2-0 but from here Aravane Rezai won next 6 games in a row breaking Sania thrice to won this match.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Doubles
[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Leos Friedl (CZE)/ David Skoch (CZE)
[R1] (4) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs Michael Kohlmann (GER)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs Rik De Voest (RSA)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)
[R1] (WC) Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Somdev Devvarman (IND) vs James Cerretani (USA)/ Travis Rettenmaier (USA)

[R1] (10) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) vs (WC) Yayuk Basuki (INA)/ Kimiko Date Krumm (JPN)

Somi and Prakash received Asian pair wild card for Australian Open ... So they r having good chance of making use of it ... Rohan and Aisam can face top-seed Bryans if they wins first round.

Sania and Virginia Ruano Pascal r 10th seed and r in same top draw of top seeds ... In first round they r facing 39 yrs old experienced Asian wild card pair, who r making comeback.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[Q3] (27) Somdev Devvarman (IND,161) l (12) Blaz Kavcic (SLO,126) 36 67(4)

Somi's struggle with his service games continued in this match ... In 5th game he broke Kavcic's serve in 5th game but after that he lost 4 games on row, where his serve broken twice, to lose first set ... In second set also Somi got broken early and was down 1-3 ... In 5th game he was 15-40 down on his serve, then he saved 2 break points to hold his serve and broke Kavcic's serve in next game to make it 3-all ... Then again he broke Kavic to lead 5-3 but again while serving for the set his service let him down ... He got broken and then second set went into tie-break where initially they exchanged mini-breaks ... But Kavcic take important mini-break on 8th point to lead 3-5 and that turned out crucial as he served it out to won this match.

Somi had big opprtunity of qualifying for main draw with this weak draw ... I feel this time he lost that opportunity due to poor service games ... I wish Somi's team look into this matter as early as possible,

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[Q2] (27) Somdev Devvarman (IND,161) bt Tobias Kamke (GER,258) 26 61 8-6

[Q3] (27) Somdev Devvarman (IND,161) vs (12) Blaz Kavcic (SLO,126)

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND,56) vs (26) Aravane Rezai (FRA,27)

Somi started badly as his serve broken in first game ... In this set Somi was struggling with his serve and other hand Kamke was holding his serve easily ... Kamke again broke Somi's serve in 7th game and then hold his next serve to win first set easily ... Second set started on similar way ike first set ... Kamke broke Somi's serve in first game ... But from second game suddenly Somi started to play better (mostly he found his correct range on his shots) ... He won next 6 games on a row in that broke Kamke's serve thrice to won second set ... In third set again Somi broke Kamke's serve in first game and third game to take early lead 3-0 ... But Kamke made exceptional fight back breaking Somi's serve twice to make it 3-all ... Then both players hold their next service games on luv to make it 4-all ... Somi again broke Kamke's serve in 9th game and was serving for the match ... Again Kamke broke Somi's serve to make it 5-all ... After Kamke's hold Somi was serving for staying in the match and he hold easily ... In 13th game Somi broke Kamke's serve after saving 2 game points ... And this time he hold his service game @30 to moved in to final qualifying round ... In third set match was very close as anybody could win ... I really surprised to see that Somi wasted 2 breaks advantage in the beginning and got broken while serving for the match in 10th game ... From Chennai Open it is evident that Somi is struggling with his serve ... He need to take care of this before next matches to go deep here at Australian Open.

Main draw is out and Sania had tough draw facing Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai, who is good form.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[Q2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,200) l (25) Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA,156) 57 46

As expected Prakash fought well against Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin ... In first set both players didn't get break point until 11th game ... Roger-Vasselin broke Kash's serve in 11th game to won first set ... But second set was different where we saw too many breaks ... Kash broke Roger-Vasselin's serve in 2nd game but then Roger-Vasselin broke Kash's serve in next and 5th game to take control of the set ... And then served well to win his service games easily ... I m bit disappointed as I was hoping upset from Kash after his recent good performance at Chennai Open qualifying.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[Q1] (27) Somdev Devvarman (IND,161) bt (WC) James Duckworth (AUS,1712) 62 62
[Q1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,330) l Jan Minar (CZE,245) 63 36 36
[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,200) bt Andre Begeman (GER,231) 46 61 63

[Q2] (27) Somdev Devvarman (IND,161) vs Tobias Kamke (GER,258)
[Q2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,200) vs (25) Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA,156)

In first set Kash was down with early break and lost it ... But from second set he turned tide and started dominating ... He won second set easily and broke Begeman in first game on third set ... He saved couple of break points on his next service game and also in 8th game but again he broke Begeman in 9th game to moved in to second qualifying round ... Next Kash is facing seeded Frenchman Roger-Vasselin with whom he has losing record ... But hopefully he will overcome this challenge.

Yuki broke Minar's serve in 4th game, then he had 3 set point on Minar's serve at 3-5 (0-40), but he could not convert those ... He held serve in 9th game to won first set ... In second set Minar broke Yuki's serve in 8th game to won second set 3-6 after saving 2 break points in 9th game ... In third set Minar broke Yuki's serve early to take 1-2 lead ... Then Minar again broke Yuki to take lead 1-4 with double break ... But Yuki kept fighting and broke Minar's serve in 6th game ... But Minar again broke Yuki in 9th game to won set and match ... In 9th game Yuki was up 40-0 but somehow lost 5 points on a row to handover the game and match ... But still very fighting performance by Yuki against experienced player.

Somi started match with breaking Aussie's serve and that trend continued in rest of set as he won first set 6-2 ... He kept his upper hand in second set to scored comfortable win to move in to second qualifying round ... His next German opponent is tricky as he is having lot more experience of playing at this level.
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At $355.5K Auckland Open, New Zealand

[QF] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) l Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (AHO) 26 36

Very one-sided victory for Brunstrom and Rojer against 2nd seed ... They dominated in every aspect of the game ... Not right preparation for Australian Open for our pair.
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At $220K Hobart International 2010, Australia

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) l Sara Errani (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA) 36 57

Disappointing result for Sania and Ruano Pascal ... They r also not having right preparation for Australian Open.
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At $25K Pingguo ITF Womens Tournament, China

[R1] VENKATESHA Poojashree (IND,340) l (LL) ZHANG Nan-Nan (CHN,1106) 16 46

Another disappointing outing for Poojashree ... Forgettable China visit for her.

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At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

[Q1] (27) Somdev Devvarman(IND,161) vs (WC) James Duckworth (AUS,1712)
[Q1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,330) vs Jan Minar (CZE,245)
[Q1] Prakash Amritraj (IND,200) vs Andre Begeman (GER,231)

Somi having favorable draw ... Facing Australian wild-card in first round .. And having Slovenian #126 Blaz Kavcic is highest seeded in his draw.

Though Prakash and Yuki having tricky first round matches still they r also having good draw ... Kash having Frenchmen #134 David Guez and #156 Edouard Roger-Vasselin r seeded players ... And Yuki also having Frenchmen #129 Josselin Ouanna, whom Yuki can face if he manage to win first round, and #141 Sebastien De Chaunac r seeded players.
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At $220K Hobart International 2010, Australia

[R1] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) bt Edina Gallovits (ROU)/ Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) 62 61

[QF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Virginia Ruano Pascal (ESP) vs Sara Errani (ITA)/ Roberta Vinci (ITA)

Very comfortable win for Sania and Virginia Ruano Pascal ... They needs match practice before Australian Open as last week they lost in first round ... Today they played like second seed to scored dominating win ... Next they r facing Italian pair.
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At $355.5K Auckland Open, New Zealand

[R1] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE)/ Travis Parrott (USA) 75 64

[QF] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (AHO)

Lee and Lukas had tough match than they expected ... But they managed to win this match taking breaks at crucial moment ... In second set they saved 4 break point chances and converted only 1 they got.

Top seed Bryans lost in the first round ... Next Lee and Lukas r facing little unknown European pair.