B D NarayankarINDIAN sports, it seems, is moving towards better days. First it was the great show put up by our shooters and boxers at Olympics, now it's the turn of tennis players. Mahesh Bhupathi has stormed into the finals of both mixed doubles and doubles in the Australian Open. This is a rare distinction.
Not far off, and probably gone unnoticed or probably not much discussed, is the sterling performance scripted by Yuki Bhambri who breezed into the boys finals of the Australian Open.
Top seed Yuki swept aside seventh-seeded France's Adrien Puget 6-4, 6-4 to reach his first Grand Slam final where he meets Germany's Alexandros-Ferdinandos Georgoudas who pulled off a shock 6-4, 6-4, win over second seed Julen Uriguen of Guatemala.
"It was a tough match, I was 1-4 down in the second set. It was pretty hot out there, but I stuck it out to win. It is yet to sink in that I am in the final," Yuki said.
Yuki's doubles campaign with Chinese Taipei's Liang-Chi Huang, however, came to an end when they lost 3-6, 1-6 to Russia's Mikhal Biryukov and Japanese Yasutaka Uchiyama.
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