Monday, May 16, 2016

Tennis News

At French Open 2016, Roland-Garros

[Q1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,199) l Mathew Barton (AUS,262) 36 36
[Q1] Saketh Myneni (IND,138) bt Duckhee Lee (KOR,225) 16 76(3) 64

[Q2] Saketh Myneni (IND,138) vs Frances Tiafoe (USA,188)

Mixed results for Indians in French open ... Saki scores impressive comeback win over talented young Korean Duckhee but other hand surprising straight sets loss for RamK against Mathew Barton ... Next Saki is facing another 18 yrs old talented American Frances Tiafoe ... At 15 years old, Tiafoe became the youngest boys' singles champion in Orange Bowl history ... His favorite surface is clay and last year he played French open main-draw as he received wild-card ... In April last week he reached final in clay challenger at Tallahassee.

Superb comeback by Saki ... He was playing after injury break and his rustiness was visible in the first set ... Saki managed to win only a game in the set ... In the second set Saki was holding his serve comfortably and managed to put pressure on Duckhee's serve but failed to break ... Saki dominated tie-break for winning it comfortably ... In the last set both players were putting pressure on each other's serve but important break took by Saki in 9th game and then converted fourth match point for remarkable win.

RamK failed to raise his game against Mathew Barton ... After losing the first set RamK was up 3-1 in the second but after that he hardly won 4-5 points losing five games in a row ... May be this is the case of RamK's excessive travelling playing so many tournaments.


At $50K+H Bangkok-3 Challenger, Thailand

[Q3] Siddharth Rawat (IND,610) bt (5) Clay Thompson (USA,410) 61 62

[R1] (Q) Siddharth Rawat (IND,610) vs (PR) Remi Boutillier (FRA,501)

Unexpected solid win by Sid against top-400 type Frenchman ... Sid dominated to win this match losing only three games ... So he qualify for main-draw with three wins over higher ranked opponents ... Next he is facing another Frenchman Boutillier, who is playing with protected ranking.

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