Its 5-1 for India in the Australian Open

How many of them can you can you recognise.




The one in blue t-shirt is Rohan Bopanna, the one with black wrist band in KaranRastogi the most promising youngster of India. The 3rd and final one is Harsh Mankad, the current no. 1 of Indian tennis. You will hear more about the trio this year. Add to it Prakash Amritrage ( Better known as P$) and Sunil Kumar and you see a burgeoning Indian tennis populace in the world of professional tennis. Now yesterday can be said the most happening day in Indian tennis for long. We were 5-1. lets have a look

[R2 Boys Singles] (3) Sanam Singh (IND) bt Todd Ley (AUS) 57 60 64

[QF Mens Doubles] (7) Leander Paes/ Martin Damm bt (2) Jonas Bjorkman/ Max Mirnyi 36 63 64

[R1 Boys Doubles] (1)Jeevan Neduncherhiyan (IND)/Sanam Singh (IND) bt Ruben Bemelmans (BEL)/Frederick De Fays (BEL) 61 75

[PQF Mixed Doubles] Leander Paes (IND)/Nathalie Dechy (FRA) bt Simon Aspelin (SWE)/Meghann Shaughnessy (USA) 63 76(4)

[R1 Girls Doubles] Sanaa Bhambri (IND)/Sandhya Nagaraj (IND) lost to Michaela Johansson (SWE)/Johanna Larsson (SWE) 46 36

[PQF Mixed Doubles] Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/Martina Hingis (SUI) bt (2) Jonas Bjorkman (SWE)[2]/Lisa Raymond (USA) 75 67(8) 76 (10-7)

Now none of the better known guys of our tennis are in fray. There is no Sania Mirza. Yet we see a long list of Indian Players in a grand slam and that too in Week 2.

Pessimissts will say we still don't have a Federer.......atleast I can say for sure the probability is far better than it was before. Gone are those days when we used have one Leander or Vijay Amritrage....we have Sania and many will follow.