Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Tennis News

At $2.67M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, UAE

[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) l Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Radek Stepanek (CZE) 63 67(6) 4-10

Rohan-Florin also lose their match against tricky pairing of Nestor-Stepanek ... So with this loss end of our challenge for our players.

At $1.5M Abierto Mexicano Telcel 2016, Acapulco, Mexico

[R1] Jeremy Chardy (FRA)/ Leander Paes (IND) l Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) 26 46

Expected loss against in-form pair for Lee and Chardy.

At $50K+H La Manche Challenger, Cherbourg, France

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,213) bt Marco Chiudinelli (SUI,146) 64 61

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,213) vs (5) Adam Pavlasek (147,CZE)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Dino Marcan (CRO) l James Cerretani (USA)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 67(8) 16
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Maxime Teixeira (FRA) l Sander Arends (NED)/ Alessandro Motti (ITA) 57 63 8-10

RamK scores excellent win over last week's Polish challenger winner Chiudinelli ... May be Chiudinelli was tired after last week's heroics but still creditable performance by RamK to beat same player with such ease ... In the first set both players exchanged early breaks but RamK took crucial break in 10th game for winning this set ... In the second set RamK broke Chiudinelli in 2nd game for leading 2-0 but Chiudinelli broke him in next game, 2-1 ... But after that RamK dominated with winning next four games and in that breaking Chiudinelli in 4th and 6th games for comfortable win ... Next he is facing another top-150 Czech player Adam Pavlasek.

In the doubles our both players lose their matches with their respective partners in contrasting style.


At $50K Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,294) l (Q) Yuya Kibi (JPN,663) 36 63 67(8)

After losing the first set Sanam tried fightback but in end he failed to overcome ... In the final set he was break up at 3-1 but not able to keep that advantage and lost match in tight tie-break.

At $10K Tunisia F7 Futures, Hammamet (Clay)


[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,421) bt (2) David Perez Sanz (ESP,261) 75 64

[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,421) vs Nicolas Alberto Arreche (ARG,627)

Sumit scores one of the best win from his short career over top-275 Spanish player on clay ... Next he is facing Argentine Nicolas Alberto Arreche.

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