At € 486K Zagreb Indoors, Zagreb, Croatia
[SF] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (2) Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 67(4) 63 6-10
Really good effort by Purav-Marcelo against seasoned pair of Rojer-Tecau ... After losing first set in tie-break they fought back and won the second set ... Rojer-Tecau's experience proved useful them in match tie-break ... Turned to be good tournament for Purav.
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At $50K Chennai Challenger, India
Singles Final
(7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,174) bt Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS,238) 46 63 75
Doubles Final
(2) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) bt N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Blaz Rola (SLO) 64 76(3)
Yuki lifted his third singles challenger title in his fourth final in close match against Russian Alexander Kudryavtsev after 2 hours and 4 minutes match ... Yuki won the doubles title with Venus to win double crown ... Great week for Yuki.
First set was on serve until 10th game when Yuki struggled with his 1st serve and Kudryavtsev take advantage to broke him for winning this set ... In second set Yuki broke Kudryavtsev in 1st game to lead 1-0 but Kudryavtsev immediately broke Yuki in next game to made it 1-all ... Kudryavtsev again broke Yuki in 4th game to lead 3-1 and at that time he was looking in control of the match ... But Yuki had different plan and he suddenly started to found his range of shots ... Yuki won next five games and in that he broke Kudryavtsev in 5th, 7th and 9th games when he was serving for staying in the set ... In the decider Yuki needed to save 4 break points in 1st game before holding his serve but Kudryavtsev broke Yuki in 3rd game to lead 2-1 ... In 4th game Yuki had 4 break point opportunities but he failed to convert those but Yuki broke Kudryavtsev in 6th game to made it 3-all ... But instead of building on that momentum Yuki had terrible service game and he lost his serve to down 3-4 ... Again from 3-5 down Yuki produced amazing comeback ... He hold his serve comfortably and then broke Kudryavtsev in 10th game on luv to made it 5-all ... In 11th game Yuki was down 0-40, he needed to save 4 break points before holding his serve ... And then Yukji converted 1st match point for excellent comeback win ... In last set both players played terrible tennis, so many UFEs/ double faults or miscues, really ugly tennis ... Luckily Yuki made less errors that Kudryavtsev to win this match.
As expected Yuki-Venus won the title but Bala-Blaz stretched them in two sets ... Yuki-Venus won the first set with single break but they needed tie-break for winning it ... Good title win for Yuki-Venus but also really good week for Bala in the doubles as he reached his first challenger final.
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At $50K Kolkata Challenger, India
[Q1] (1) Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE) bt (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 75 75
[Q1] Tristan-Samuel WEISSBORN (AUT) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 62 76(5)
[Q1] Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA) bt Lucas RENARD (SWE) 61 64
[Q1] (7) Victor BALUDA (RUS) bt VIRALI-MURUGESAN, Ranjeet (IND) 61 64
[Q1] (2) Rui MACHADO (POR) bt (WC) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 62 62
[Q1] Antal VAN DER DUIM (NED) bt Torsten WIETOSKA (GER) 60 63
[Q1] Tyler HOCHWALT (USA) bt Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) 64 46 76(7)
[Q1] (6) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Karunuday SINGH (IND) 61 64
[Q1] (3) Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) bt (WC) Anvit BENDRE (IND) 75 61
[Q1] (WC) Izak VAN DER MERWE (RSA) bt N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 62 64
[Q1] Mathias BOURGUE (FRA) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND) 62 76(2)
[Q1] (5) Marek SEMJAN (SVK) bt Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) 57 75 63
[Q1] (4) Ti CHEN (TPE) bt Kevin KRAWIETZ (GER) 75 75
[Q1] (WC) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND) 63 46 62
[Q1] Joshua MILTON (GBR) bt (WC) Venkat IYER (IND) 60 64
[Q1] (8) Richard BECKER (GER) bt Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 64 64
[R1] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,388) vs Daniel Cox (GBR,247)
[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,660) vs Qualifier
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,174) vs Qualifier
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,315) vs (3) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,130)
[R1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,103) vs Mohamed Safawat (EGY,207)
Tough qualifying matches for Indian players ... Only Jeevan and Marquis manage to enter into second qualifying as they faced Indian opponents ... Really tough Kolkata draw as main-draw cut-off is below 260 ranked.
In main-draw is out Saketh having tough first round match ... Also from second round tough matches for Yuki and Buji.
[SF] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (2) Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 67(4) 63 6-10
Really good effort by Purav-Marcelo against seasoned pair of Rojer-Tecau ... After losing first set in tie-break they fought back and won the second set ... Rojer-Tecau's experience proved useful them in match tie-break ... Turned to be good tournament for Purav.
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At $50K Chennai Challenger, India
Singles Final
(7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,174) bt Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS,238) 46 63 75
Doubles Final
(2) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Michael Venus (NZL) bt N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Blaz Rola (SLO) 64 76(3)
Yuki lifted his third singles challenger title in his fourth final in close match against Russian Alexander Kudryavtsev after 2 hours and 4 minutes match ... Yuki won the doubles title with Venus to win double crown ... Great week for Yuki.
First set was on serve until 10th game when Yuki struggled with his 1st serve and Kudryavtsev take advantage to broke him for winning this set ... In second set Yuki broke Kudryavtsev in 1st game to lead 1-0 but Kudryavtsev immediately broke Yuki in next game to made it 1-all ... Kudryavtsev again broke Yuki in 4th game to lead 3-1 and at that time he was looking in control of the match ... But Yuki had different plan and he suddenly started to found his range of shots ... Yuki won next five games and in that he broke Kudryavtsev in 5th, 7th and 9th games when he was serving for staying in the set ... In the decider Yuki needed to save 4 break points in 1st game before holding his serve but Kudryavtsev broke Yuki in 3rd game to lead 2-1 ... In 4th game Yuki had 4 break point opportunities but he failed to convert those but Yuki broke Kudryavtsev in 6th game to made it 3-all ... But instead of building on that momentum Yuki had terrible service game and he lost his serve to down 3-4 ... Again from 3-5 down Yuki produced amazing comeback ... He hold his serve comfortably and then broke Kudryavtsev in 10th game on luv to made it 5-all ... In 11th game Yuki was down 0-40, he needed to save 4 break points before holding his serve ... And then Yukji converted 1st match point for excellent comeback win ... In last set both players played terrible tennis, so many UFEs/ double faults or miscues, really ugly tennis ... Luckily Yuki made less errors that Kudryavtsev to win this match.
As expected Yuki-Venus won the title but Bala-Blaz stretched them in two sets ... Yuki-Venus won the first set with single break but they needed tie-break for winning it ... Good title win for Yuki-Venus but also really good week for Bala in the doubles as he reached his first challenger final.
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At $50K Kolkata Challenger, India
[Q1] (1) Tsung-Hua YANG (TPE) bt (WC) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 75 75
[Q1] Tristan-Samuel WEISSBORN (AUT) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 62 76(5)
[Q1] Ruan ROELOFSE (RSA) bt Lucas RENARD (SWE) 61 64
[Q1] (7) Victor BALUDA (RUS) bt VIRALI-MURUGESAN, Ranjeet (IND) 61 64
[Q1] (2) Rui MACHADO (POR) bt (WC) Ashwin VIJAYRAGAVAN (IND) 62 62
[Q1] Antal VAN DER DUIM (NED) bt Torsten WIETOSKA (GER) 60 63
[Q1] Tyler HOCHWALT (USA) bt Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) 64 46 76(7)
[Q1] (6) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) bt Karunuday SINGH (IND) 61 64
[Q1] (3) Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) bt (WC) Anvit BENDRE (IND) 75 61
[Q1] (WC) Izak VAN DER MERWE (RSA) bt N Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 62 64
[Q1] Mathias BOURGUE (FRA) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND) 62 76(2)
[Q1] (5) Marek SEMJAN (SVK) bt Jui-Chen HUNG (TPE) 57 75 63
[Q1] (4) Ti CHEN (TPE) bt Kevin KRAWIETZ (GER) 75 75
[Q1] (WC) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND) 63 46 62
[Q1] Joshua MILTON (GBR) bt (WC) Venkat IYER (IND) 60 64
[Q1] (8) Richard BECKER (GER) bt Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) 64 64
[R1] (WC) Sanam Singh (IND,388) vs Daniel Cox (GBR,247)
[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,660) vs Qualifier
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,174) vs Qualifier
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,315) vs (3) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,130)
[R1] (2) Somdev Devvarman (IND,103) vs Mohamed Safawat (EGY,207)
Tough qualifying matches for Indian players ... Only Jeevan and Marquis manage to enter into second qualifying as they faced Indian opponents ... Really tough Kolkata draw as main-draw cut-off is below 260 ranked.
In main-draw is out Saketh having tough first round match ... Also from second round tough matches for Yuki and Buji.
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