<p>Mahesh Bhupathi and Yuki Bhambri, playing for the first time together as a team, stormed into the men’s doubles final of Delhi Open tennis tournament with an easy victory over their opponents here on Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bhupathi and Yuki hardly broke a sweat in their 6-1, 6-3 victory over the pair of Jimmy Wang of Chinese Taipei and Ze Zhang of China in the semifinals at the DLTA complex.<br /><br />Bhupathi and Yuki will face another Indian pair of Saketh Myneni and Sanam Singh in the summit clash.<br /><br />Fourth seeds Myneni and Sanam defeated top seeded duo of Flavio Cipolla and Divij Sharan of India 6-3, 6-3 in the other semifinals today.<br /><br />In the men’s singles also, Myneni, seeded fourth, entered the semifinals with an easy 6-4, 6-1 win over Zhe Li of China in the quarterfinals. Myneni will meet second seed Kimmer Coppejans of Belgium in the semifinals. Coppejans beat India’s wild card entrant Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-3, 6-2 in another quarterfinals match.<br /><br />In the women’s singles, India Ankita Raina lost to Sabina Sharipova of Uzbekistan 3-6 4-6 in the semifinals.<br /><br />“It was a really high quality of tennis. The level of tennis was totally different from previous rounds that I played. Sabina played really well today, from what I had seen in Fed Cup she was more consistent and in good form,” Ankita said.<br /><br />“We had really long points and with the courts being fast, it was really quick. I had to increase the speed from the last matches that I played and I was always missing it. This is what I felt while I was on court, I’m not sure if it looked different from outside,” she added.</p>
<p>Mahesh Bhupathi and Yuki Bhambri, playing for the first time together as a team, stormed into the men’s doubles final of Delhi Open tennis tournament with an easy victory over their opponents here on Friday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Bhupathi and Yuki hardly broke a sweat in their 6-1, 6-3 victory over the pair of Jimmy Wang of Chinese Taipei and Ze Zhang of China in the semifinals at the DLTA complex.<br /><br />Bhupathi and Yuki will face another Indian pair of Saketh Myneni and Sanam Singh in the summit clash.<br /><br />Fourth seeds Myneni and Sanam defeated top seeded duo of Flavio Cipolla and Divij Sharan of India 6-3, 6-3 in the other semifinals today.<br /><br />In the men’s singles also, Myneni, seeded fourth, entered the semifinals with an easy 6-4, 6-1 win over Zhe Li of China in the quarterfinals. Myneni will meet second seed Kimmer Coppejans of Belgium in the semifinals. Coppejans beat India’s wild card entrant Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-3, 6-2 in another quarterfinals match.<br /><br />In the women’s singles, India Ankita Raina lost to Sabina Sharipova of Uzbekistan 3-6 4-6 in the semifinals.<br /><br />“It was a really high quality of tennis. The level of tennis was totally different from previous rounds that I played. Sabina played really well today, from what I had seen in Fed Cup she was more consistent and in good form,” Ankita said.<br /><br />“We had really long points and with the courts being fast, it was really quick. I had to increase the speed from the last matches that I played and I was always missing it. This is what I felt while I was on court, I’m not sure if it looked different from outside,” she added.</p>
