Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Tennis News

At $50K Kolkata Challenger, India

[R1] (Q) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,502) l (1) James Duckworth (AUS,112) 36 63 36
[R1] (WC) Sumit Nagal (IND,1329) l Egor Gerasimov (BLR,262) 57 57
[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,348) vs (Q) Richard Becker (GER,425) 57 57
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,267) bt (4) Somdev Devvarman (IND,155) 46 63 64
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,414) bt Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP,224) 62 62
[R1] (WC) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,UNR) l (2) Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS,135) 36 67(7)

Buji fail to keep his momentum of winning Delhi title as he lose his match against compatriot RamK in three sets ... After losing the first set RamK made strong comeback for completing win against confident Buji.

Yuki score dominating win over top-225 Spanish player Enrique Lopez Perez losing only 4 games but his niggling injury is worrisome.

Other hand excellent fighting performance by Vijay Sundar, Sumit and Prajnesh against higher ranked opponents ... But this time our only three players in singles second round.

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At $50K+H Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[R1] (PR) Karunuday Singh (IND,499) l (6) Ze Zhang (CHN,187) 36 46

Doubles
[R1] Andre Whittington (AUS)/ Karunuday Singh (IND) bt Liang-Chi Huang (TPE)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) 76(11) 26 10-8

KU play in Kyoto challenger ... In the singles he faced Chinese top singles player Zhang and lost in straight sets ... But in the doubles he start with win against Huang-Sugita with his Australian partner.
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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament, Aurangabad, India

[R1] (WC) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) l (1) Magda Linette (POL) 36 57
[R1] (Q) Snehadevi S. Reddy (IND) l DalilaJakupovic (SLO) 46 16
[R1] (Q) Sai Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy (IND) Katy Dunne (GBR) 46 36
[R1] (WC) Natasha Palha (IND) l Marie Benoit (BEL) 26 26
[R1] (5) Ankita Raina (IND) l Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE) 67(6) 26
[R1] (Q) Bhuvana Kalva (IND) bt Naomi Cavaday (GB) 16 75 64
[R1] (Q) Nidhi Chilumula (IND) l (7) Tadeja Majeric (SLO) 67|(4) 16
[R1] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND) bt (Q) Mihika Yadav (IND) 26 46
[R1] (WC) Rashmi Teltumbde (IND) l (2) Kai-Lin Zhang (CHN) 26 36

[R2] (Q) Bhuvana Kalva (IND) vs (8) Xinyun Han (CHN)
[R2] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND) vs (2) Kai-Lin Zhang (CHN)

Only Bhuvana and Rishika manage to cross first hurdle ... Ankita has terrible two weeks in these Indian ITF tournaments.

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