Sunday, April 26, 2015

Tennis News

At €439K TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open, Istanbul, Turkey

[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Alexander Bury (BLR)/ Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)

This week Purav is gatting opportunity of playing on ATP tour at Turkey.

At €439K BMW Open, Munich, Germany

[R1] Radek Strepanek (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Jan-Lennard Struff (GER)/ Dominic Thiem (AUT)

Good to see Lee is back with his old partner Radek ... This week hoping for better result.

At $75K+H Taipei Challenger, Taiwan

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan(IND,226) vs (8) Jimmy Wang (TPE,136)
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,218) vs (Q) Yuya Kibi (JPN,421)
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,231) vs Hiroki Moriya (JPN,157)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Ti Chen (TPE)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (WC) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE)
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Yuya Kibi (JPN)/ Takuto Niki (JPN)

Draw is out and Yuki is facing Japanese qualifier ... RamK and Saki r facing higher rankled opponents but still I feel winnable matches for them on carpet.

In the doubles Yuki-Saki r playing together and facing Japanese pair ... RamK is playing with Ti Chen and they r fourth seed facing local wild-card pair.


At $50K Tallahassee Challenger, Florida, USA

[Q1] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,378) bt (WC) Max Wennakeski (FIN,UNR) 63 61

[Q2] (3) Sanam Singh (IND,378) vs Mico Santiago (USA,835)

Expected comfortable win against unranked player and in the final qualifying round Sanam is facing lowly ranked American ... Good opportunity for qualifying for main-draw in another US challenger.

At $50K+H An-Ning Challenger, China (red clay)

[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND,UNR) bye
[Q2] Divij Sharan (IND,UNR) bt (2) Bumpei Sato (JPN,904) 63 62

[Q3] Divij Sharan (IND,UNR) bt Xi Qi (CHN,1967) 76(3) 63

[R1] (Q) Divij Sharan (IND,UNR) vs (WC) Wei Qiang Zheng (CHN,1025)
[R1] (PR) Karunuday Singh (IND,775) vs (8) David Perez Sanz (ESP,344)
[R1] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,392) vs (5) Tsung Hua Yang (TPE,271)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Boy Westerhof (NED) vs Takashi Saito (JPN)/ Yusuke Watanuki (JPN)
[R1] Karunuday Singh (IND)/ Andrew Whittington (AUS)/ Maverick Banes (AUS)/ Gavin Van Peperzeel (AUS)
[R1] Alexandre Folie (BEL)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs (2) Toni Androic (CRO)/ Franko Skugor (CRO)

Divij qualify for main-draw with couple of good wins and this outing definitely going to help him for the doubles ... He is facing local wild-card playing in the first round ... KU and Vijay Sundar r facing seeded players in the first round.

In the double Divij is top-seed with Dutch player Boy ... KU and Vijay Sundar having tough matches in the doubles.

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