Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Tennis News

At French Open 2015, Roland Garros, Paris

[Q1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,245) bt Guido Andreozzi (ARG,182) 64 76(4)
[Q1] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,158) bt (14) Alexandr Nedovyesov (KAZ,116) 63 36 9-7

[Q2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,245) vs Jarred Donaldson (USA,156)
[Q2] (7) Yuki Bhambri (IND,158) vs Tim Puetz (GER,203)
[Q2] Somdev Devvarman (IND,172) l Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,177) 26 46

And RamK and Yuki join Buji in the second round with contrasting wins ... After resuming their matches RamK broke Andreozzi to up with a break ... But when RamK was serving for the match at 5-4 he failed to hold his serve at that time he was only 2 points away from win, 30-0 ... RamK recovered and played excellent tie-break ... He was up double mini-break and three match points at 6-3 ... RamK converted second for his first grand slam level victory ... Next he is facing American clay court specialist Jarred Donaldson.

Yuki also got immediate break and hold his service games for winning first set ... In the second set Nedo broke Yuki in 4th game to lead 3-1 and this time he hold his service games for winning it ... In the third set both players exchanged early breaks ... After that both players hold respective service games without much hiccups ... At 8-7 Yuki had three match points and he converted third for breaking Nedo's serve and completed victory ... With his first win at French open Yuki gives him good chance of qualifying for main-draw ... Next he is facing German Tim Puetz.

Somi fail to continue with winning form and lose his match in straight sets ... In his second round match Buji got dominated by Donskoy in the first set ... Buji lost the first set with double break ... In then second set Buji got broken in first game and then he failed to recover ... Donskoy hold his service games without facing break point for a win.


At $50K ITF Women's Tournament, Wuhan, China (Clay)

[R2] (5) Ankita RAINA (IND,235) l Alexa GUARACHI (USA,425) 57 26

Doubles
[QF] Natasha PALHA (IND)/ Ran TIAN (CHN) l (1) Chang LIU (CHN)/ Jia-Jing LU (CHN) 16 57

Very disappointing loss for Ankita in the singles.

At $50K Eskisehir Challenger, Turkey

[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) l Adrien Bossel (SUI)/ Marco Chiudinelli (SUI) 46 64 8-10

Divij's poor run in the doubles continue ... He and Saki lose their quarters against Swiss pair in match tie-break.

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