Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy ousted from Dubai event

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It's a sad day for Indian tennis as Leander Paes loose in the first round of Dubai Tennis Championship. Millions of Indian aspected Leander to do well in Dubai. It was a shock exit for the 3rd seed duo.
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Third seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy made a shock first round exit from $2,233,500 Dubai Tennis championships after losing 4-6, 6-2, 8-10 to unseeded pair of Simone Bolelli and Ivo Karlovic.

Paes-Dlouhy made a spirited comeback after going down in the first set but lost it in the closely fought super tie-breaker.

They squandered three breakpoints in the first set to hand the lead to their Italian-Croatian rivals but pulled up their socks and outplayed them in the second to draw parity.

However, Bolelli and big serving Karlovic edged past their fancied rivals in the deciding tie-breaker to book a quarterfinal berth for themselves.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Prakash Amritraj are also in the fray with their respective partners.

Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahama, seeded second, will play their opener against UAE's wild card entrants Hamoud Abbas and Mahmoud-Naden Al Baloushi.

Amritraj and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi have been given a wild card entry and they will begin their campaign against Czech Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden. source: http://www.ndtv.com

Roddick triumphs at Memphis

TRIUMPHANT: Andy Roddick avenged a loss to Radek Stepanek as he regained the RMK Championship in Memphis on Sunday.

MEMPHIS: American top seed Andy Roddick claimed his first title of the season and a measure of revenge with a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Czech Radek Stepanek in the final of the Memphis tennis championships on Sunday.

Roddick, who lost to Stepanek in the semifinals of the San Jose Open last week, ended his opponent’s bid for back-to-back titles when he converted on his second match point to clinch a 27th career title.

“A week ago (in San Jose) I felt like I was in control of the match but he played better when it counted on the big points,” Roddick told reporters.

“I played better today on the big points. Right now I’m looking at it as a process and it’s great to win a title.”

Great start

The champion in 2002 and runner-up in 2003 and 2007, Roddick got off to a bright start with an early break to race 3-0 ahead on his way to securing the opening set, the first taken from Stepanek all week.

In the second set, both players held serve throughout, Roddick saving two break points at 15-40 in the ninth game and one more break point in the 11th game with one of his eight aces.

Leading 6-5 and Stepanek serving to stay in the match, Roddick set up a triple match point and while the fifth seed was able to stave off the first, the 26-year-old American sealed victory on his next attempt.

Ninth title

At Buenos Aires, Spain’s Tommy Robredo won his second successive tournament when he beat Argentina’s Juan Monaco 7-5, 2-6, 7-6(5) in the final of the Copa Telmex.

The third seed followed up last week’s win in Costa da Sauipe, Brazil, by clinching his ninth ATP title.

“I am very happy for having won back-to-back titles for the first time in my career,” said the World No. 17. “I trained hard to be able to play well in consecutive weeks.”

Robredo earned the opening set’s only service break in the 11th game, but lost momentum following a 90-minute rain break after the first game of the second set.

Unseeded Monaco, who beat top seed David Nalbandian on Saturday, took advantage to break serve three times in a row and level the match.

Both players broke serve twice in the third set before Robredo squandered two break points at 5-5.

The set went to a tie-break, which the Spaniard clinched with his fourth match point.

The results:

At Memphis (ATP RMK Championship): Final: Andy Roddick bt Radek Stepanek 7-5, 7-5.

At Buenos Aires (ATP Copa Telmex): Final: Tommy Robredo bt Juan Monaco 7-5, 2-6, 7-6(5)

At Bogota (WTA Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas): Final: Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez bt Gisela Dulko 6-3, 6-2. — Agencies Hindu

Devvarman, Bopanna lose

Delray Beach (USA): There will be no Indian competing in the singles event of the Delray Beach International tennis championships as both Somdev Devvarman and Rohan Bopanna failed to make the main draw, losing their qualifying matches.

Bopanna made a first round exit, losing to American John Isner 2-6, 1-6.

Devvarman went down fighting 5-7, 4-6 against America’s Ryan Sweeting. — PTI

OIL junior tennis starts

OIL junior tennis starts:
The Oil India All Assam Junior Tennis Tournament 2008-09 got underway today at Zaloni Club Tennis Courts here. The 35-year-old tennis tournament is being sponsored by Oil India Limited (OIL). Altogether 220 players from various parts of the region are taking part in the tournament which is played in boy’s singles under 12, 14, 18 years and girls singles under 14 years.
Sri Paresh Khaund, executive director (SS&SB), OIL inaugurated the tournament Smt Susan Das Choudhury former national tennis champion and eminent sports personality attended the function as guest of honour. Sri Kuladhar Deka, chairman, organizing committee, welcomed the gathering.

Only boy’s singles under 12 years category matches were held on the inaugural day.
Results: Vishal Saikia bt Krizan Kashyap, Mridanka Gayan bt Abhipal Sarma, Abhigyan Bhuyan bt Kaustav Kakoti, Debraj Sarma bt Anurag Borah, Arnabian Lahkar bt Partha Dutta, Asetso Khate bt Akashjyoti Das, Aditya Phukan bt Abinash Gogoi, Rishik Dutta bt Rohan Gogoi, Animesh Sarma bt Kritartha Hazarika, Rajeel Barua bt Sagar Bora, Danish Ahmed bt Krishnak Das, Mansash P Kuli bt Arunoday Buragohain, Akshay Jajodia bt Md Zaheed, Arnab Lakshi Barua bt Purnajit Bhowmil, Tahagat Tulsi Gogoi bt Mohsin Ali, Subhan Kar Paul bt Rituraj Gogoi, Vijay Mohanty bt Nishad Sahu, Herolal Rinpuia bt Nilutal Barua, Bhaskar Gogoi bt Farhad Haque, Subhranil Padmapati bt Debanuj Phukan, Kalyan Samua bt Abhik Ranjan Das, Arkashish Talukdar bt Manjit Das, Udish Borpujari bt Udit Gogoi, Swagat Barua bt Puberun Boruah. (From our Tinsukia Correspondent) source: sentinel assam