Topic: Australian Open 2009 (Read 2076 times)

dextrous · « **on:** January 14, 2009, 07:26:03 AM »

Somdev vs. Prakash in qualifying round 1...to qualify from their side one of them will have to beat andreas beck of germany...good player ranked 102.

Andreas Beck GER (2)
v
Brendan Mckenzie AUS

Martin Fischer AUT
v
Kyu Tae Im KOR

Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA
v
Lukasz Kubot POL

Prakash Amritraj IND
v
Somdev Devvarman IND (28)

prakash might beat somdev but doubt he'd go very far
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sania barely making the cut...but will have a hard draw (not out yet) as her ranking has fallen of due to injury time off
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the biggest indian to watch out for will be in the junior's division...yuki bhambhri, who i suspect will be as good as somdev in 2-3 years. he won the orange bowl recently...which is how the likes of federed and courier started
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theres of course paes and mahesh...can count for a doubles or mixed doubles slam at least

dextrous · « **Reply #1 on:** January 15, 2009, 05:32:55 AM »

somdev beats prakash in q1...faces some unknown guy in r2

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #2 on:** January 15, 2009, 05:39:41 AM »

Good. After a long time, I am hopeful about someone in Indian tennis. Lets see how far he gets.

dextrous · « **Reply #3 on:** January 16, 2009, 04:54:11 AM »

somdev has a heartbreaking 3 set loss..5-7 in last set...needs another breakthrough atp tourney. unfortunately now india only hosts one, making it very difficult for indian players

broadbat · « **Reply #4 on:** January 19, 2009, 09:07:34 AM »

Impressive start by Mirza. Through to Round 2 in straight sets, will next meet Petrova I think.

pieterSAN · « **Reply #5 on:** January 19, 2009, 10:02:23 AM »

Text Commentary at bbc.com
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0949: If you're eagerly anticipating Roger Federer's opening match, I recommend you put the kettle on and make yourself a very large cup of tea. We're currently enjoying a classic women's match on Rod Laver Arena, and by that I mean a feast of unforced errors, breaks of serve and momentum swings. Casey Dellacqua and Daniela Hantuchova are in a tiebreak at the end of the first set.
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"..feast of unforced errors"....MMMM (a la Jon Stewart)

dextrous · « **Reply #6 on:** January 19, 2009, 04:13:13 PM »

good performance by sania...Sania won 6-1, 6-4.

after a long injury break too

broadbat · « **Reply #7 on:** January 21, 2009, 04:28:23 AM »

Petrova too strong for Mirza. Wins in straight sets easily.

dextrous · « **Reply #8 on:** January 21, 2009, 05:40:42 AM »

Quote from: broadbat on January 21, 2009, 04:28:23 AM

Petrova too strong for Mirza. Wins in straight sets easily.

tough draw...running into world #10 2nd round!!

dextrous · « **Reply #9 on:** January 21, 2009, 05:28:58 PM »

Court 11 (1st match)
[R1] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)/ Mischa Zverev (GER)

Court 10 (2nd match)
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Vania King (USA) vs Vera Dushevina (RUS)/ Olga Savchuk (UKR)

Court 19 (3rd match)
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Yves Allegro (SUI)/ Fabrice Santoro (FRA)

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[R1] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) vs (6) Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Pavel Vizner (CZE)

dextrous · « **Reply #10 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:00:37 AM »

Mahesh Bhupathi IND (3)/Mark Knowles BAH (3) beat Mikhail Youzhny RUS /
Mischa Zverev GER

6-3, 6-2

dextrous · « **Reply #11 on:** January 22, 2009, 06:01:25 AM »

Sania Mirza/ Vania King l Vera Dushevina/ Olga Savchuk 6-4 1-6 1-6

[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) bt Yves Allegro (SUI)/ Fabrice Santoro (FRA) 46 61 62

[R2] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) vs Igor Kunitsyn (RUS)/ Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)
[R2] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs Fabio Fognini (ITA)/ Ivan Ljubicic (CRO)

vincent · « **Reply #12 on:** January 23, 2009, 03:59:26 PM »

Men's draw looks now very interesting with all top players in the Top 16. It is a tough call to say who will win. Women's on the other hand is shaky since no one really stands out.

dextrous · « **Reply #13 on:** January 23, 2009, 05:21:51 PM »

rohan, paes, and mahesh all in r2 now

dextrous · « **Reply #14 on:** January 24, 2009, 05:55:01 PM »

[R2] (3) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Mark Knowles (BAH) d. Igor Kunitsyn (RUS)/ Dmitry Tursunov (RUS) 75 75

[R2] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) l. Nicolas Lapentti (ECU)/ Tommy Robredo (ESP) 46 46

Yuki Bhambri IND (1) v German Sanchez Delfin MEX

dextrous · « **Reply #15 on:** January 25, 2009, 06:48:56 PM »

R1] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 64 46 10(7)

[R2] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Patty Schnyder (SUI)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA)

vincent · « **Reply #16 on:** January 26, 2009, 11:15:00 AM »

Watch out for Tsonga again this year. Though he is suffering from back-ache (Disc Hernia), he is quite capable of going far..into at least semi-finals.

teamindia · « **Reply #17 on:** January 27, 2009, 06:23:30 AM »

Bhupathi-Knowles in doubles semi-finals

MELBOURNE: Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles sailed into the Australian Open doubles semi-finals, defeating Feliciano Lopez an
d Fernando Verdasco in searing conditions at Melbourne Park on Tuesday.

The third seeded Indo-Bahamian pair took 88 minutes to dispatch the Spanish duo 6-1, 2-6, 6-4 in their quarter-final clash.

gouravk · « **Reply #18 on:** January 27, 2009, 06:11:10 PM »

what a virtuoso performance by the federer express today !! he is back to the glory days of 06-07 ! and the sight of his favorite opponent in the semis will lift him to even greater heights !!

this thing is hotting up - another rafa roger final looks incresingly likely ...

dextrous · « **Reply #19 on:** January 27, 2009, 10:51:36 PM »

Mixed Doubles
[R2] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Patty Schnyder (SUI)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 16 57

Junior Girls' Doubles
[R2] Eugenie Bouchard (CAN)/ Kyra Shroff (IND) l (6) Christina McHale (USA)/ Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) 46 16

Junior Boys' Doubles
[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Liang-Chi Huang (TPE) bt Marco Bortolotti (ITA)/ Vladzimir Kruk (BLR) 63 64

broadbat · « **Reply #20 on:** January 28, 2009, 05:37:23 AM »

Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi rallied to beat Canadians Aleksandra Wozniak and Daniel Nestor to seal a semifinal berth in the mixed doubles event of the Australian Open here on Wednesday.

The unseeded Indian pair overcame a first-set lapse to carve out a 3-6, 6-4, 10-5 win in one hour and 15 minutes.

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #21 on:** January 28, 2009, 06:02:31 AM »

Bhupathi is going great guns in this year's event!!

teamindia · « **Reply #22 on:** January 28, 2009, 06:20:39 AM »

Leander Paes has won the first set (6-1) in men's doubles..
6-6 (match in progress) in the second set..

broadbat · « **Reply #23 on:** January 28, 2009, 06:40:07 AM »

Paes and partner win.

LosingNow · « **Reply #24 on:** January 28, 2009, 07:02:20 AM »

Man.. watched the Roddick vs Jokovic match y'day. The temps on the ground reached 130+..and yet they did not close the roof.

gouravk · « **Reply #25 on:** January 28, 2009, 02:00:34 PM »

why do they have to keep this federer-roddick game at this dastardly time ?

how good is this verdasco really ? he just beat murray and tsonga in a row ! can he upset nadal ?

teamindia · « **Reply #26 on:** January 29, 2009, 02:04:51 AM »

Bhupathi-Knowles enter Men's doubles final.
Yuki Bhabri enters Junior Semifinal.

dextrous · « **Reply #27 on:** January 29, 2009, 02:47:00 AM »

paes runs into bryan brothers...hope his partner comes to the party too unlike last time

broadbat · « **Reply #28 on:** January 29, 2009, 10:21:12 AM »

Federer two sets up against Roddick.

broadbat · « **Reply #29 on:** January 29, 2009, 10:59:35 AM »

Federer wins Paes loses.

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #30 on:** January 29, 2009, 12:18:23 PM »

So another Federer v Nadal ... (barring an upset of epic proportions)

pieterSAN · « **Reply #31 on:** January 29, 2009, 12:26:17 PM »

Quote from: keep-it-cool on January 29, 2009, 12:18:23 PM

So another Federer v Nadal ... (barring an upset of epic proportions)

Verdasco win is unlikely but he is a good player.

keep-it-cool · « **Reply #32 on:** January 29, 2009, 12:40:01 PM »

Quote from: pieterSAN on January 29, 2009, 12:26:17 PM

Quote from: keep-it-cool on January 29, 2009, 12:18:23 PM
So another Federer v Nadal ... (barring an upset of epic proportions)

Verdasco win is unlikely but he is a good player.

agreed ...although i'd never seen him play before this tourno

ramshorns · « **Reply #33 on:** January 29, 2009, 02:01:13 PM »

What a piece of * Roddick is. He is Federer's personal puppet much like Federer is to Nadal but at a much lesser proportion.

ganavk · « **Reply #34 on:** January 29, 2009, 03:24:33 PM »

Quote from: ramshorns on January 29, 2009, 02:01:13 PM

What a piece of * Roddick is. He is Federer's personal puppet much like Federer is to Nadal but at a much lesser proportion.

that is not very good. You can always talk about why his game is not as good as Fed or Nadal's but calling him a piece of sh*t. At least he has won 1 ( is it 2 ?) grand slam and not that he has not beaten Fed earlier.

ramshorns · « **Reply #35 on:** January 29, 2009, 03:54:06 PM »

Quote from: ganavk on January 29, 2009, 03:24:33 PM

Quote from: ramshorns on January 29, 2009, 02:01:13 PM
What a piece of * Roddick is. He is Federer's personal puppet much like Federer is to Nadal but at a much lesser proportion.
that is not very good. You can always talk about why his game is not as good as Fed or Nadal's but calling him a piece of sh*t. At least he has won 1 ( is it 2 ?) grand slam and not that he has not beaten Fed earlier.

What is not very good....Him not beating Federer. When was the last time he beat Federer in a meaningful match...Plus every now and then I like to call players that when I do not like the outcome of a match played by two players I do not care much for. In other words I wanted the personal pimp of Roger to come out on top in this match. Him not doing that pissed me off to no end invoking that reaction....I guess I explained enough.

poondu · « **Reply #36 on:** January 29, 2009, 05:19:57 PM »

Fed fans will hope that Verdasco does a Tsonga. I don't see him winning the title if he faces Nadal.

He admitted he has mixed feelings about who he would prefer to face.

"I'd like to play Fernando because he's never played a Grand Slam final before. I have an edge there," said the 27-year-old.

"Playing Rafa is obviously more exciting because of the history we have, playing in so many Grand Slam finals.

"Him being the best player in the world at the moment, it would make it a very intriguing match."

Nadal is the only player to have beaten Federer in a Grand Slam final, three times at the French Open and once at Wimbledon.

But Federer said he could not be happier with his form in 2009 after struggling with the after-effects of glandular fever at last year's tournament.

"I do feel better mentally. I'm obviously more healthy so I can focus on playing well," he said after seeing off Roddick in straight sets.

"I'm really pleased about my performance so far in the tournament. The draw was difficult and dangerous if you look back on who I had to play."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/7858463.stm

vincent · « **Reply #37 on:** January 29, 2009, 07:58:33 PM »

It is a difficult call. I think Verdasco will give a tough fight, if not win. If Nadal wins it will be still a tough match for him in the final since this is a hard-court surface on which he does not have a great record. I will still go for Federer if he continues his form of these last two matches.

broadbat · « **Reply #38 on:** January 30, 2009, 06:33:16 AM »

Bhupathi /Mirza on court. 3 all first set.

broadbat · « **Reply #39 on:** January 30, 2009, 06:47:14 AM »

Indian pair win first set 6-4.

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