Fourth-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany advanced to the second round. September 30th, 2008
Fourth-seeded Sabine Lisicki of Germany advanced to the second round. Of the Tashkent Open with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Dilyara Saidkhodjaeva of Uzbekistan on Monday.
Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia also advanced on the hard courts of the Dynamo Tennis Club. The fifth-seeded Rybarikova defeated Kathrin Woerle of Germany 6-4, 6-4.
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Tendulkar says India planning its strategy.
India is planning its strategy for combating Australia in the forthcoming test series, batsman Sachin Tendulkar said.
“The Indian team will play with a well laid-out strategy to win the four-test series,” Tendulkar was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India on Monday.
India began training for the test series on Monday in Bangalore at the National Cricket Academy.
Selectors are expected to pick the team on Wednesday for the first test match which begins Oct. 9 in Bangalore.
Tendulkar has been cleared to play in the tests after recovering from the elbow injury that forced him to miss the recent one-day series against Sri Lanka.
Tendulkar said the Indian team management would be busy over the next few days planning “the way we want to approach the series.”
“We just like to focus on our performance,” said Tendulkar, adding that India expected a tough challenge from Australia despite the touring team featuring several new players.
Tendulkar said some of the Australian players may be new to international cricket, “but that doesn’t mean they cannot deliver.”
“They’ve played a lot of cricket and we respect that. We don’t want to be caught off-track,” he said.
Tendulkar dismissed any security concerns among the Indian players after Saturday’s blast in New Delhi that killed one person and injured another 22.
The Australian team has been asked by its security officer to be extra cautious, but Tendulkar said the Indian players were confident that they would not be targeted by terrorists.
“We have full confidence that nothing bad will happen,” he said.