Tennis News

At $$824K Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Alex Bogomolov Jr. (RUS)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) 46 63 5-10

Big missed opportunity for Divij-Purav to going deep in ATP tour tournament ... They lost the first set then shared early breaks with opponents but then won the second set from 3-all ... After that Divij-Purav had nightmarish match tie-break ... They were early 1-6 down with triple mini-breaks and they never recovered from that.
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At $15K Australia F10 Futures, Sydney

[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,284) bt Gavin van Peperzeel (AUS,586) 64 63

[QF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,284) vs Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN,348)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) bt Maverick Banes (AUS)/ Gavin van Peperzeel (AUS) 76(3) 62

[F] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) vs (1) Dane Propoggia (AUS)/ Jose Statham (NZL)

Yuki scored comfortable straight sets win in the second round ... Next he is facing his doubles partner Yasutaka ... In the doubles Yuki-Yasutaka r in the final ... In the first set their opponents take them in tie-break but after that they won the match with double break ... In the final they r facing top-seed pair.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Lagos, Nigeria

[R2] Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND,505) bt (3) Eva BIRNEROVA (CZE,145) 61 62

[R2] Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND,505) vs (7) Naomi BROADY (GBR,284)

Doubles
[R1] Dalila JAKUPOVIC (SLO)/ Kyra SHROFF (IND) bt (4) Melanie KLAFFNER (AUT)/ Tadeja MAJERIC (SLO) 63 63
[R1] Nidhi CHILUMULA (IND)/ Michaela FRLICKA (GER) l (3) Fatma AL NABHANI (OMA)/ Cristina DINU (ROU) 26 26
[R1] Rishika SUNKARA (IND)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) l Margarita LAZAREVA (RUS)/ Jasmin STEINHERR (GER) 63 26 7-10

[QF] Dalila JAKUPOVIC (SLO)/ Kyra SHROFF (IND) vs Gioia BARBIERI (ITA)/ Anna MORGINA (RUS)

Huge win by >Prarthana against former top-60 Czech player in straight sets ... Prarthana broke Eva 6 times in the match and lost her serve twice in this one-sided win ... Really big win for Prarthana and really hoping that she built on this win ... Next she is facing former top-200 British player Naomi Broady.

In the doubles Kyra-Dalila scored upset straight sets win over 4th seed pair but our other two pairs lost ... Rishika-Prarthana lost in the match tie-break after winning the first set ... Nidhi and her German partner failed to gave challenge to 3rd seed pair.
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At $15K Nigeria F1 Futures , Lagos

[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,699) bt (4) Dino Marcan (CRO,447) 62 76(5)
[R2] (8) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,596) l Andre Gaspar Murta (POR,681) 67(5) 16
[R2] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,315) bt Sanni Adamu (NGR,1499) 62 63
[R2] (Q) Mithun Murali (IND,1658) bt (WC) Joseph Imeh Ubon (NGR,UNR) 64 46 60

[QF] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,699) vs (6) Borna Coric (CRO,531)
[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,315) vs Andre Gaspar Murta (POR,681)
[QF] (Q) Mithun Murali (IND,1658) vs (5) Ante Pavic (CRO,489)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Henry Atseye (NGR)/ Eric Vehovec (CAN) 62 62

[QF] (2) Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Pekun Akingbade (NGR)/ Kehinde Alade (NGR)

After longtime Vishnu scored upset(?) win over higher ranked opponent ... His Croatian opponent was also former top-300 player like Vishnu ... After winning the first set easily Vishnu faced stiff challenge from Marcan but he kept focus and finished the match in two sets after winning the tie-break ... Next he is facing tough challenge of junior WR #1 and very talented 16 yrs old Croatian Borna Coric, who is current junior US open champion and also reached in the semis of junior Australian open and junior French open in 2013 ... In the doubles also Vishu and Kondo started with comfortable win.

Jeevan and Mithun scored contrasting win over their Nigerian opponent ... Jeevan won his match comfortably but Mithun required three sets ... Mithun's next opponent is 5th seed Croatian Pavic ... Jeevan is facing talented Portuguese teenager Andre, who scored upset win over Ranjeet in the second round.
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At $15K USA F27 Futures, Mansfield, Texas

[R1] (5) Vijayant Malik (IND,494) l (Q) Jakob Sude (GER,1786) 26 36
[R1] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,357) l Andrew Harris (AUS,809) 76(6) 26 67(2)

Doubles
[R1] Vijayant Malik (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) l Mindaugas Celedinas (LTU)/ Marek Pesicka (CZE) 57 46

Turned to be horrible US futures for Indians ... Shocking losses of Sanam and Vijayant against very lowly ranked opponents ... Sanam won the first set after tight tie-break but then he lost momentum and conceded the second set easily ... And in the third set tie-break Aussie Harris proved strong for Sanam ... Vijayant failed to gave decent fight to German qualifier and in the doubles also Sanam-Vijayant lost in the first round.
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At $10K Germany F19 Futures, Essen

[R1] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Miki Jankovic (SRB) bt Jan Oliver Sadlowski (GER)/ Johann Willems (GER) 63 75

[QF] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Miki Jankovic (SRB) vs Peter Torebko (GER)/ Holger Zuehlsdorff-Pavlovic (GER)

Bala-Miki started with straight sets win and next they r facing another German pair.
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At $10K Spain F35 Futures, Sant Cugat

[QF] (2) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Javier Fernandez (ESP)/ Sergio Martos Gornes (ESP) 63 61

[SF] (2) David Perez Sanz (ESP)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Jordi Munoz-Abreu (VEN) / Mark Vervoort (NED)

Ramkumar-Sanz scored comfortable win against their Spanish opponents ... In the semis they r facing 3rd seed Spanish-Dutch pair.
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At $10K ITF Women's Tournament, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[R1] (WC) Ashmitha EASWARAMURTHI (IND) l Ksenia DMITRIEVA (RUS) 26 57
[R1] Sneha PADAMATA (IND) l Liudmila VASILYEVA (RUS) 16 26

Expected losses of our players.