Rooting for Rendy Lu Yen-hsun at the Malaysian Open

I'll be attending the evening session matches at the PROTON Malaysian Open tonight.

I'm extremely excited about this as the tournament has one of the fastest tennis court surface.

Wild cards recipients Taylor Dent and Marcos Baghdatis will begin their first round match at 5PM.

Dent will face Andrey Golubev first and followed by Baghdatis against Rendy Lu Yen-hsun.

I attended the pressers held for Dent and Baghdatis yesterday. Dent was super confident of his chance and said he was 100% fit.

Meanwhile, it didn't look too good for Baghdatis who refused to think much about his opponent.

Earlier I was at the practice court and saw Rendy practicing with another wild card Joachim "Pim Pim" Johansson.

I asked Rendy to comment about his first round match against Baghdatis (they never play each other before) after his practice. So check out this video.

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Gael Monfils heading to Kuala Lumpur for a title streak

Gael Monfils the fifth seed at the Proton Malaysian Open Kuala Lumpur 2009 is heading here soon after having just won his first tournament of the year.

Monfils ended a four-year title drought by defeating Philip Kohlschreiber 7-6, 3-6, 6-2 in the final of the Open de Moselle in Metz, France.

“I am very happy about winning this second title; I've been waiting for it for a long time. Being in France, this title is even more special to me, as I won it here in front of my family and friends.

“I am now flying to Kuala Lumpur and getting ready to play there as soon as I arrive. I hope I will be able to get some rest during the flight.”

(Via IMG; Image via Yahoo! Sports)

VIDEO: Ferrer, Lopez meet a wild friend at KL Tower (updated)

David Ferrer and Feliciano Lopez were at the top of the KL Tower this morning for a photo shoot session to promote the PROTON Malaysian Open tennis tournament.

It was kind of hazy so the photos that we've got weren't that impressive.

Then, we came down for another photo shoot session, this time the Armada boys posed with a parrot.

It was kind of fun. Here's the pictures and video.

(Photo credit to HSFoo/hcfoo.com)

PROTON Malaysian Open: Qualifying results & OOP for Day 1

Qureshi may have lost in the qualie but he won with that smile!

Brendan Evans, Mikhail Kukushkin, Michael Yani and Rohan Bopanna made it into the Main Draw at the PROTON Malaysian Open today.

Here' the complete results and OOP for tomorrow.

RESULTS - SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Qualifying Singles - Quarterfinals
Qualifying - B Evans (USA) d W Jun (KOR) 46 64 63
Qualifying - M Kukushkin (KAZ) d A Qureshi (PAK) 76(3) 62
Qualifying - M Yani (USA) d S Lipsky (USA) 46 63 63
Qualifying - R Bopanna (IND) d M Fyrstenberg (POL) 75 61

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ORDER OF PLAY - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
CENTER COURT start 11:30 am
[Q] M Yani (USA) vs [Q] B Evans (USA)
C Rochus (BEL) / M Vassallo Arguello (ARG) vs S Huss (AUS) / S Lipsky (USA)
[WC] R Bopanna (IND) / A Qureshi (PAK) vs [4] S Aspelin (SWE) / P Hanley (AUS)

Not Before 5:00 PM
A Golubev (KAZ) vs [WC] T Dent (USA)
Y Lu (TPE) vs [WC] M Baghdatis (CYP)

Updated draw for singles and doubles events - click image to enlarge

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