Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Tennis News

At $100K ITF Women's Tournament, Anning, China (Clay)

[R1] Ankita RAINA (IND,287) bt Kamila KERIMBAYEVA (KAZ,425) 36 63 63

[R2] Ankita RAINA (IND,287) vs. (2) Xinyun HAN (CHN,120)

Ankita scores comeback win over Kerimbayeva ... Good to see Ankita is showing consistency in her performance ... Next she is having tough match against 2nd seed local girl Xinyun Han.

At $100K Busan Challenger, South Korea

[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (Q) Alexander Ward (GBR)/ Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) 64 76(8)

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Sam Groth (AUS) vs Matt Reid (AUS)/ John Patrick Smith (AUS)
[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS)/ Ze Zhang (CHN)

Purav-Divij also start with straight sets win over British qualifier ... This is good win considering they reached China on Monday after their US challengers stint.

In the quarters top-seed Lee-Sam r facing Aussie pair and Divij-Purav r facing Chinese-Russian combination.


At $50K Rome Challenger, Italy

[R2] (Q) Sumit Nagal (IND,409) l (5) Filip Krajinovic (SRB,114) 75 36 26

Sumit lose in three sets in the second round after winning the first set ... Sumit played really good match against top-125 Serbian Filip Krajinovic ... In the first set he was 0-2 down before leading 5-3 ... He missed 4 set points on his serve but broke Filip in 12th game for winning the set ... In the secnd set also he managed to put pressure on Filip's serve ... Sumit broke him twice but other hand lost his serve four times ... After that Sumit was tired as he was playing 5th match in five days ... Still encouraging performance against talented Serbian player.

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