Friday, July 01, 2016

Tennis News

At Davis Cup Asia/ Oceania Group I 2016 - Second Round, Chandigarh, India

Indian Team - Saketh Myneni, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Rohan Bopanna and Leander Paes
Non-playing captain - Anand Amritraj
Coach - Zeeshan Ali

Sensible team selection by AITA for our Davis cup tie against Korea ... Yuki is still recovering from tennis elbow so no fully match fit but I m still worrying about Saki's shoulder injury ... We require him fit for this tie as here we r playing with two doubles specialists.

At Wimbledon Open 2016, London, Great Britain

Doubles
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) bt Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) 61 63
[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) bt Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Nikola Mektic (CRO) 75 76(6)

[R2] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Florin Meargea (ROM) vs Andrej Martin (SVK)/ Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)

Junior
[Q1] Zeel Desai (IND,87) l (12) Siqi CAO (CHN,78) 36 64 36

[R1] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,88) vs Lara Escauriza (PAR,37)

Lee-Marcin score comfortable win over Lu-Tipsarevic ... Rohan-Florin start with tight two sets win over Croatian pair.

Zeel loses in first qualifying round so only Karman is playing in junior Wimbledon.


At $125K Braunschweig Challenger, Germany (Clay)

[Q1] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND,409) bye
[Q2] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND,409) vs Petr Michnev (CZE,540)

Sumit is playing in another tough German big challenger.

At $50K+H Bastad Challenger, Sweden

[Q1] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,406) bye
[Q2] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,406) vs Jonathan Mridha (SWE,971)

Prajnesh decides to play in Sweden challenger and having good opportunity of qualifying in mai-draw.

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