Mutua Madrid Open - ATP Masters/WTA Premier, May 2014

[prashanthm]

Sania/Cara are seeded 5th and I suppose some our doubles players on the Men's side would also be playing on the ATP side...

[R1] (5) Sania Mirza (IND,8) / Cara Black (ZIM,9) v. Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN,59) / Alicija Rosolska (POL,50)

[prashanthm]

Bops is the only Indian player on the Men's side at Madrid...
Bops/Qureshi get a first round bye and will be up against the winner of Butoraac/Klaasen & Raonic/Seppi in R2...

[R1] (5) Rohan Bopanna (IND,14) / Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK,27) bye

[Tolamu]

(R1)(5)S Mirza/C Black bt Dabrowski/Rosolska 6-1 5-7 10-7.

[Tolamu]

Federer pulled out of Madrid Masters. I hope he will be well in time for FO.

[PKBasu]

He pulled out as his wife was giving birth. They now have a second set of twins!!

http://tennis.si.com/2014/05/06/roger-f ... leo-lenny/

The last line of that report is cute: "We look forward to seeing Switzerland sweep the gold medals in singles, doubles and mixed doubles at the 2040 Olympics." There would be 5 medals the Federer family could be contending for at those Olympics...

[Sin Hombre]

Having twins is a genetic trait; think Mirka's sister also gave birth to a pair.

[Prashant]

Congratulations to Federer!

I thought Federer's older twins were identical? I believe only fraternal twins run in families, not identical twins...

[Omkara]

(R1)(5)S Mirza/C Black bt Dabrowski/Rosolska 6-1 5-7 10-7.

She is the player of the year for India...

[Tolamu]

(R2)(5)C Black/S Mirza bt H-C Chan/C Scheepers 6-4 6-1

[Tolamu]

Today

(QF)(5)Cara Black(ZIM)/Sania Mirza(IND) vs (1)Su-Wei Hsieh(TPE)/Shuai Peng(CHN) in std. 3 1st mtc at 12noon.

(R2)(8)Rohan Bopanna(IND)/Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi(PAK) vs Milos Raonic(CAN)/Andreas Seppi(ITA) in Pista 4 4th mtc around 4.30pm

[Tolamu]

Mirza/Black l. Hsieh/Peng 7-5 1-6 8-10

[Tolamu]

Why? This looks like my private thread. Everybody is more interested in MR. BHARGATGHAVRI.

Bopanna/Qureshi in QF without hitting a ball.
(R1) Bye
(R2) Walkover
(QF) I pray that there will not be a STB loss(like Sania).

[Omkara]

Can't help STBs and can't help bhargat too. he is too intelligent

[sameerph]

[QF](8)Rohan Bopanna(IND)/Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi(PAK). l. (4) Fernando Verdasvo (ESP) / David Marerro (ESP) 67(5) 67(6)

[sameerph]

Lets disucss the Rome masters in this thread itself. Moderators can change the title thread.

Both Rohan & Sania have tough first round matches today.

At Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs. Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) / Horia Tecau (ROU)


[R1] (5) Sania Mirza (IND) /Cara Black (ZIM) vs. Martina Hingis (SUI) / Sabine Lisicki (GER)