Asian Players at the US Open

Winners
Shinobu Asagoe (Jpn) bt Stephanie Cohen Aloro (Fra) 6-1 6-4
Aiko Nakamura (Jpn) bt Marissa Irvin (USA) 6-3 6-3
Sania Mirza (Ind) bt Mashona Washington (USA) 7-6 (8-6) 6-7 (6-8) 6-4
Jie Zheng (Chn) bt Iveta Benesova (Cze) 6-2 3-6 6-0
Ai Sugiyama (Jpn) bt Alyona Bondarenko (Ukr) 5-7 6-4 6-3

Losers
Nicole Pratt (Aus) bt Akiko Morigami (Jpn) 6-7 (0-7) 6-0 ret
(10) Venus Williams (USA) bt Rika Fujiwara (Jpn) 6-3 6-1
Emma Laine (Fin) bt Shuai Peng (Chn) 3-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-2
(8) Serena Williams (USA) bt Yung-Jan Chan (Tpe) 6-1 6-3,

Questionable Victory

Sania Mirza - India
Sania struggled to defeat 65 ranked Mashona, Sania went up, breaking Mashona in the very first game but the American bounced back with two successive breaks to go up 4-2. But serving for the set, Mashona was broken. In the tie-breaker, Mashona's nerves frayed and she let go a two set point advantage to Sania. The second set was a ding-dong battle that saw Sania fail to close the match after going 3-1 up. Mashona did well to come back twice from a break behind while Sania hanging to avert a break in the 12th game and pushed the set into the tie-breaker.

Commendable Loss

Yung-Jan Chan. - Chinese Taipei
The rookie from Taipei got her first taste of gritty Grand Slam tennis, thrown into the fire at Arthur Ashe Stadium against Serena Williams, a seven-time Grand Slam champion. Chan fought valiantly in the second set and gave Williams a scare before the former champion rebounded to finish off the match with a flourish.

Not your day - Hard Luck

Akiko Morigami - Japan
Akiko Morigami left Flushing Meadows in a wheelchair after being overcome by heat against Australian Nicole Pratt as temperatures soared above 30 degrees Celsius. She had won the first set.....

Indian tennis sensation and third seeded Sania Mirza was defeated by unseeded Lucie Safarova(CZE) who is currently ranked 65 in the world. She won the match in three sets. Sania got to a good start by wining the first set 6-3 but Lucie got her act together to win the second set 7-5 and the third at 6-4.

Sania plays a lower ranked Mashona Washington of US in the first round of US Open.

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Mahesh Bhupathi will team up with the dazzling glamour girl of tennis Daniela Hantuchova in the mixed doubles in the US Open Championship.

Sania Mirza of India eliminated Roberta Vinci 6-2, 6-1 in the quarter finals of Forest Hills Women's Classic. In the Semi finals she will face Alexa Glatch, a 15-year-old wild card from USA who had earlier defeated the top seed Akiko Morigami of Japan 6-4 3-6 6-2

Paradorn Srichaphan defeated France's Cyril Saulnier 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (7-5) at the Pilot Pen tournament in New Haven. He will play either Thomas Zib or David Ferrer in the last eight.