Tennis News

At $624K Atlanta Open, USA

[Q2] Saketh Myneni (IND,265) l (7) Donald Young (USA,154) 67(3) 36
[Q2] Prakash Amritraj (IND,275) bt (3) Somdev Devvarman (IND,130) 63 64

[Q3] Prakash Amritraj (IND,275) vs (5) Mischa Zverev (GER,149)

Prakash take full advantage of Buji's struggle with his service games and broke him in 6th game to won the first set ... Kash kept pressure on Buji's serve in the second set also and take important break in 9th game for winning the set ... In the final qualifying Kash is facing German Mischa Zverev.

Saketh gave decent fight to Young ... Take the first set in tie-break and in the second set had 3 break points, 0-40, at 3-all but failed to convert and lost next 3 games.
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At $125K Astana Challenger, Kazakhstan

[Q2] (5) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,531) bt (WC) Roman Khassanov (KAZ,UNR) 62 26 612

[Q3] (5) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,531) vs (4) Egor Gerasimov (BLR,453)

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,372) vs Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO,314)
[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,329) vs (5) Marsel Ilhan (TUR,175)

Doubles
[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Ti Chen (TPE)/ Yong-Kyu Lim (KOR)
[R1] (2) Jose (Rubin) Statham (NZL)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (WC) Alexey Nesterov (KAZ)/ Dmitry Popko (KAZ)

Surprised to see match went to three sets ... After winning the first set Vishnu lost his concentration losing the second ... But he came back strongly in third winning it losing a game ... In the final qualifying Vishnu is facing 4th seed Belarusian Egor Gerasimov.

Tough match for Balaji in the singles and tricky one for Jeevan.