Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Tennis News

At €2.3M Erste Bank Open 2015, Vienna, Austria

[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) l(WC) Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) 67(5) 75 4-10

Rohan-Florin fail to overcome challnege of experienced pairing of Nestor and Knowle ... After losing first set Rohan-Florin fought back to win second but failed to keep same momentum in match tie-break.

At $50K Bangalore Challenger, India

[R2] (Q) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,850) l (1) Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP,137) 26 63 36
[R2] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND,166) bt Dane Propoggia (AUS,473) 64 76(9)
[R2] (WC) Sumit Nagal (IND,510) l (5) Yannick Mertens (BEL,183) 26 67(4)

[QF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND,166) vs (5) Yannick Mertens (BEL,183)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Egor Gerasimov (BLR)/ Ilya Ivashka (BLR) 76(3) 61

[QF] (WC) John Paul Fruttero (USA)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Petros Chrysochos (CYP)/ Temur Ismailov (UZB) 62 62
[QF] Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (3) Ti Chen (TPE)/ Dane Propoggia (AUS) 67(5) 46

[QF] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (WC) Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND)

[SF] (WC) John Paul Fruttero (USA)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs (3) Ti Chen (TPE)/ Dane Propoggia (AUS)

Saki moves into quarters with straight sets win over his Aussie opponent Dane Propoggia ... After losing first set Dane matched with Saki in second ... Both players exchanged breaks before taking the set in tie-break ... Saki missed couple of match points in tie-break but Dane had big opportunity when he was mini-break up at 8-9 ... Saki won next 2 points on Dane's serve before serving ace on the match point ... Next he is facing Belgian Yannick Mertens.

After losing first set cheaply Sumit gave fighting performance in the second ... He was 1-5 and double break down in the second ... He won next five games in a row breaking Mertens twice ... Sumit had a set point on Mertens's serve in 12th game but he failed to convert ... In tie-break Mertens kept control for winning it in straight sets.

Prajnesh gives encouraging performance against top-150 Spanish opponent ... After losing first set cheaply he made strong comeback for winning second set .... He failed to keep same momentum in third but impressed by his overall performance ... This performance gives him 10 ranking points and push ranking inside top-750.

In the doubles Vijay Sundar and his partner Fruttero r in the semis with very convincing win over Chrysochos and Ismailov ... Sumit-Vishnu fail to overcome challenge of 3rd seed Ti Chen and Propoggia.

Saki-Sanam start with straight sets win against Belarus pair ... Next they r facing Sood twins.


At $50K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2015, Saguenay, Quebec, Canada

[R1] (LL) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,1029) l (Q) Fanni Stoller (HUN,600) 46 64 16

Karman got a chance as luckyloser but she lose to another qualifier in three sets ... After losing first set Karman fought back to win second but Stoller proved too strong in the final set ... Hungarian Fanni Stoller is current top-10 junior player and recently she reached semis of US open juniors.

At $10K Egypt F36 Futures, Sharm El Sheikh

[R1] (3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,579) bt (Q) Marc DIJKHUIZEN (NED,1883) 61 63

[R2] (3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,579) vs (LL) Manuel BARROS (ARG,1369)

Sasi is skipping Indian challenger series and playing in Egypt futures for gaining his confidence back ... He starts with comfortable win against Dutch qualifier ... Next he is facing Argentine lucky loser.

At $10K Turkey F42 futures, Antalya

[Q1] (7) Haadin BAVA (IND) bye
[Q2] (7) Haadin BAVA (IND) bt Velislav CHOLAKOV (BUL) 62 60
[Q3] (7) Haadin BAVA (IND,2213) bt Arif GULIYEV (AZE,UNR) 62 64

[R1] (Q) Haadin BAVA (IND,2213) bt Andrei Stefan APOSTOL (ROM,959) 63 63

[R2] (Q) Haadin BAVA (IND,2213) vs. (5) Mate DELIC (CRO,498)

Haadin Bava again qualified for main-draw and in main-draw score convincing upset win over top-1000 Romanian opponent ... In the second round he is having tough match against top-500 Croatian.

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