Tennis News

At €485,760 Open de Nice Côte d’Azur, France (Red clay)

[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna(IND)/ Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Daniele Bracciali (ITA)/ Oliver Marach (AUT) 57 76(5) 10-5

Rohan-Aisam really need to dig deep for this comeback victory over Bracciali-Marach ... After losing the first set they needed tie-break for winning the second before winning the match tie-break.
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At $50K Karshi Challenger, Uzbekistan

[R2] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,359) bt (3) Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS,242) 63 26 64
[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,348) bt Antal Van Der Duim (NED,318) 76(4) 62

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,359) vs (Q) Mikhail Ledovskikh (RUS,881)
[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND,348) vs Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO,294)

Doubles
[QF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ James Clusky (IRL) bt Chase Buchanan (USA)/ Jeevan Nenduncheziyan(IND) 76(5) 63
[QF] (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Antal Van Der Duim (NED)/ Boy Westerhof (NED) 62 75
[QF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Ti Chen (TPE) l Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) 36 64 6-10

[SF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ James Clusky (IRL) vs Sergey Betov (BLR)/ Alexander Bury (BLR)
[SF] (4) Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)

Jeevan score huge upset win over 3rd seed Konstantin Kravchuk ... Jeevan started well and won the first set but in the second set from 2-3 he lost his serve twice for losing it ... In the final set Jeevan broke Kravchuk in 1st game and kept that advantage for winning this match ... Next he is facing former top-150 Russian player Mikhail Ledovskikh for place in the semis.

Saketh score straight sets win over Dutch player Antal Van Der Duim ... After winning the first set in tie-break Saki dominated the second set ... Next he is facing Georgia's Nikoloz Basilashvili ... Saki is in the doubles semi-final ... He defeated Jeevan-Buchanan in straight sets with Clusky ... In the semis they r facing Belarusean pair.

Divij-Huang wins their match in straight sets ... In the semis they r facing conquerors of Bala-Chen.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Tianjin, China

[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,288) bt (WC) Yan Wang (CHN,799) 61 61

[R2] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,290) vs Yuxuan Zhang (CHN,399)

Doubles
[QF] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Fatma Al Nabhani (OMA) bt (2) Jessica Moore (AUS)/ Aleksandrina Nayedenova (BUL) 64 62

[SF] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Fatma Al Nabhani (OMA) vs (4) Wen-Hsin Hsu (TPE)/ Chen Liang (CHN)

Expected comfortable win for Ankita ... Next she is having tricky match against former top-250 Yuxuan Zhang.

In the doubles Ankita-Fatma score dominating upset win over 2nd seed pair ... In the semis they r facing 4th seed Chinese-Taiwani pair.
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At $15K Mexico F5 futures , Obregon City

[R1] (2) Sanam Singh (IND)/ Michael Shabaz (USA) l Pedro Brenardi (BRA)/ Guilherme Hadlich (BRA) w/o

Disappointing Mexican futures for Sanam.
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At $10K Thailand F4 Futures, Kutching, Malaysia

[R2] (Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND,1715) l Jacob GRILLS (AUS,735) 16 36

Marquis run end in the second round against Grills.