Friday, June 10, 2016

Tennis News

At $50K Surbiton Challenger, Great Britain (Grass)



Doubles Final
(4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (1) Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 64 76(1)

[SF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Luke Saville (AUS)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS) 63 63

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP) l Luke Saville (AUS)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS) 36 46

Divij-Purav complete their back to back challenger titles on the grass ... Again they beat British pair Skupski brothers ... This is Divij' 10th and Purav's 8th challenger title, together they win 4 titles.

In the final Divij and Purav started positively and were 5-2 up before taking the first set comfortably ... In the second set again Purav lost his serve to find our pair down 1-4 ... From 3-5 and 40-15 our pair made amazing comeback and broke Skupski brothers after saving couple of set points ... In tie-break our pair dominated from the start and won this comfortably.

Before that Jeevan and his Spanish partner lost in straight sets against Aussie pair ... Divij and Purav faced same Aussie pair in the semis and they scored dominating win over them for entering into the final.


At $75K+H Moscow Challenger, Russia (Clay)

[SF] Ramkumar Ramanathan(IND)/ David Perez Sanz (ESP) l Alexandre Metrevelli (GEO)/ Dmity Popko (KAZ) 63 36 7-10

RamK and Sanz lose in match tie-break after winning the first set against Metrevelli and Popko.

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