Sunday, June 05, 2016

Tennis News

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



Doubles Final
Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (2) Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 63 36 11-9

Terrific start for grass season for Divij and Purav ... They lift their 3rd title as pair and this is Divij's 9th challnger title and Purav's 7th challenger title ... In end really hard fought win for Purav-Divij for winning Manchester title.

After winning the first set Purav struggled with his serve in the second ... He lost his serve twice in the second set for losing the set ... In match tie-break Divij-Purav took 5-2 lead but after that they lost 7 points from 8 points played .. From 6-9 they made amazing comeback winning 5 points in a row and in that they saved 3 match points for completing exciting win.


At $125K+H Caltanissetta Challenger, Italy (Clay)

[Q3] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND,388) bt (1) Alessandro Bega (ITA,284) 46 62 61

Another superb upset win over top-300 Alessandro Bega for Sumit and qualifying to main-draw of this big Italian challenger ... After losing the first set he made excellent comeback for winning next two sets comfortably.

At $75K+H Lyon Challenger, France (Clay)

[Q2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,411) l (5) Maxime Teixeira (FRA,373) 57 36

Prajnesh lose in straight sets against Teixeira.

At €635K Ricoh Open 2016, s-Hertogenbosch, Netherland (Grass)

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) vs (WC) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Robin Haase (NED)

This week Rohan is playing with WR #2 Nicolas Mahut and they r top-seed ... Interestingly Florin Meargea is playing at Stuttgart with his Romanian partner Horia Tecau, may be preparation for Rio Olympics?

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

[R1] (8) Saketh Myneni (IND,149) vs James Duckworth (AUS,170)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Aldin Setkic (BIH)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP) vs (2) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)

This week Saki is playing at Surbiton and his first match is tricky one against Aussie James Duckworth ... In the doubles Purav and Divij r 4th seed and Jeevan is playing with Spanish partner Adrian Menendez-Maceiras but they r having tough challenge of Ratiwatana twins.

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

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan(IND,199) vs (2) Karen Khachanov (RUS,108)

Doubles
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan(IND)/ David Perez Sanz (ESP) vs Steven Diez (CAN)/ Nikola Milojevic (SRB)

RamK is playing on clay at Moscow challenger but having tough match against local favorite Karen Khachanov.

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