Saturday, October 24, 2015

Tennis News

At $7M BNP Paribas WTA Finals 2015, Singapore

Red Group
(1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Martina Hingis (SUI)
(4) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Kristina Mladenovic (FRA)
(6) Raquel Kops-Jones (USA)/ Abigail Spears (USA)
(7) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Lucie Hradeckova (CZE)

Draw is out for WTA Finals ... Sania and Martina r in Red group and they r having 4th, 6th and 7th seed pairs in their group.

At $50K Bangalore Challenger, India



[SF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND,166) l (1) Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP,137) 46 46

Doubles Final
(2) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt (WC) John Paul Fruttero (USA)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) 57 46 10-2

Saki lose his match against Adrian, tiredness of three weeks of hard work catching up ... In first set Adrian broke Saki in 3rd game to lead 3-1 and kept that advantage for winning the set ... In the second set also same story repeated ... In this match Saki struggled with his first serve percentage, 54%.

Saki-Sanam lift their fourth title together when they score comeback win over Vijay Sundar and Fruttero in Bangalore challenger ... After losing first set Saki-Sanam made strong omeback to win second set ... They dominated match tie-break winning it losing only 2 points.


At $50K Pune Challenger, India

[Q1] (WC) Arpit SHARMA (IND) bt (WC) Neishit VAKIL (IND) 60 64
[Q1] Sagar AHUJA (IND) bye
[Q1] (8) Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND) bye
[Q1] Suraj R PRABODH (IND) bt Christopher MARQUIS (IND) 61 63
[Q1] Purav RAJA (IND) bt Kunal ANAND (IND) 76(7) 63
[Q1] (7) Chandril SOOD (IND) bye
[Q1] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bye
[Q1] (WC) Medhir GOYAL (IND) bye
[Q1] (WC) Banthia SIDDHANT (IND) bye
[Q1] (5) Sidharth RAWAT (IND) bye
[Q1] (4) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) bye
[Q1] Jayesh PUNGLIYA (IND) bt (WC) Rahul SADHWANI (IND) 63 36 64
[Q1] Lakshit SOOD (IND) bt (WC) Nitten KIRRTANE (IND) 67(5) 62 64
[Q1] (6) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bye

[Q2] (1) Temur ISMAILOV (UZB) bt (WC) Arpit SHARMA (IND) 64 63
[Q2] (8) Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND) bt Sagar AHUJA (IND) 61 60
[Q2] (2) Petros CHRYSOCHOS (CYP) bt Suraj R PRABODH (IND) 46 64 75
[Q2] Purav RAJA (IND) bt (7) Chandril SOOD (IND) 63 63
[Q2] (3) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (WC) Medhir GOYAL (IND) 62 62
[Q2] (5) Sidharth RAWAT (IND) bt (WC) Banthia SIDDHANT (IND) 62 62
[Q2] (4) Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) bt Jayesh PUNGLIYA (IND) 63 61
[Q2] (6) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt Lakshit SOOD (IND) 61 62

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,99) vs (WC) Anvit Bendre (IND,1250)
[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,482) vs Egor Gerasimov (BLR,323)
[R1] (WC) Sumit Nagal (IND,510) vs Qualifier
[R1] (5) Saketh Myneni (IND,166) vs Ilya Ivashka (BLR,388)
[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,279) vs Alessandro Bega (ITA,331)
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,248) vs Gerad Granollers (ESP,272)
[R1] (6) Somdev Devvarman (IND,181) vs Maxime Janvier (FRA,351)
[R1] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,352) vs Arthur De Greef (BEL,266)
[R1] (WC) Aryan Goveas (IND,1883) vs Germain Gigounon (BEL,220)

Pune challenger singles main-draw is out ... Tough matches for Vishnu, RamK and Vijay Sundar.

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

[Q1] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,1029) bt Maureen DRAKE (CAN,999) 61 61

This week also Karman is playing in qualifying of $50K tournament ... She start with comfortable win over higher ranked very experienced Canadian player ... Maureen Drake is 44 yrs old but 16 yrs back she was former top-50 player ... Good to see easy victory for Karman against this veteran player.

At $10K Egypt F36 Futures, Sharm El Sheikh

[SF] (3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,579) l (2) Richard GABB (GBR,550) 67(1) 16

Sasi loses his match is straight sets against Gabb ... Gabb broke Sasi in 3rd game but immediately in next game Sasi broke back for 2-all ... After that Sasi had many break points which eh failed to convert ... In 12th game on Gabb's serve Sasi missed couple of set points and after that from tie-break there was all Gabb's show ... Learning experience for Sasi for not missing such opportunities.

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