Sunday, July 26, 2015

Tennis News

At $769K Claro Open Colombia, Bogota

[SF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) l (3) Mate Pavic (CRO)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 64 36 9-11

Another missed opportunity for Purav and Fabrice in Bogota semi-final ... After winning first set they lost second with early break ... In match tie-break they were mini-break up and had couple of match point at 9-7 ... Purav failed to win point on his serve and they lose four points in a row for losing this match.

At $50K+H Recanati Challenger, Italy


Doubles Final
(2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt (4) Ilija Bozoljac (SRB)/ Flavio Cipolla (ITA) 46 76(3) 10-6

Divij lifts his first title of 2015 and 7th challenger title of his career at Recanati challenger ... He and Ken win the title beating in-form pairing of Bozo and Cipolla ... They took complete advantage of rain-break as after losing first Divij-Ken were down 2-4 in the second ... From there they made excellent comeback to win second set in tiebreak ... They kept momentum in match tie-break for winning it comfortably.

At $659K Atlanta Open, USA

[Q1] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) bye
[Q2] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) bt Treat Huey (PHI,UNR) 75 63

[Q3] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,148) vs Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,423)

Doubles
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Fabrice Marting (FRA) vs Treat Huey (PHI)/ Steve Johnson (USA)

Buji is playing in the singles qualifying ... He had first round bye and then face his ex-UVa teammate and ex-doubles partner Treat Huey in the second round ... Buji score straight sets win over Treat and facing Japanese Shuichi Sekiguchi for place in main-draw.

Purav-Fabrice r playing in the doubles and facing Treat and Steve Johnson in the first round.


At €494K Swiss Open Gstaad, Switzerland

[Q1] Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND,381) l Gerald Melzer (AUS,181) 26 26

No luck for Vijay Sunder as Melzer proved too strong for him.

At $50 Lexington Challenger, USA

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,194) vs (7) Liam Broady(GBR,159)
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,151) vs Qualifier
[R1] (7) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) vs Brydan Klein (GBR,173)

At Lexington challenger Yuki, Saki and RamK r playing ... Saki and RamK having toughh first round matches.

At $125K Jiangxi Women's Tennis Open 2015, Nanchang, China

[R1] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,230) vs Chang Liu (CHN,256)

Doubles
[R1] Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS)/ Ankita Raina (IND) vs Na-Lae Han (KOR)/ Su Jeong Jang (KOR)

Ankita is playing in this $125K series and facing similar ranked Chinese opponent ... Hopefully she has winning start and in the doubles she is facing Korean pair with her Russian partner.

At $15K ITF Women's Tournament, Hong Kong

[SF] (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,828) bt (Q) Beatrice GUMULYA (INA,UNR) 63 62

[F] (Q) Prerna BHAMBRI (IND,828) vs. (1) Ayaka OKUNO (JPN,326) 46 06

Prerna's terrific run ends in the final against top-seed and top-325 Japanese girl Ayaka Okund ... Though Okund scored one-sided win still creditable performance by Prerna ... This week she won six matches in a row before losing into the final.

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