Saturday, July 30, 2016

Tennis News

At $100K+H Biella Challenger, Italy (Clay)

Doubles Final
(3) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (1) Andrej Martin (SVK)/ Hans Podipnik-Castillo (CHI) 64 64

Lee lifts Biella Challenger title with his German partner Andre Begemann beating top-seed pair comfortably ... Lee-Andre saved few break points on their serves and converted their first break point chance on Podipnik-Castillo's serve in 9th game for winning the first set ... In the second set Lee-Andre broke Andrej is 5th game for taking 4-2 lead ... And kept that advantage for completing straight sets victory

At $75K+H Segovia Challenge, Spain



Doubles Final
(3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Joaquin Munoz-Hernandez (ESP)/ Akira Santillan (JPN) 63 46 10-8

Divij-Purav lift their 3rd challenger title of the year when they defeated Munoz-Hernandez and Santillan in match tie-break at Segovia ... Overall this is 5th challenger title for Purav-Divij pairing ... Individually this was Divij's 11th and Purav's 9th challenger title ... Next they r playing at Atlanta ATP.

At $125K Chengdu Challenger, China

[R1] (PR) Karunuday Singh (IND,1443) vs (WC) Rigele Te (CHN,971)
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,390) vs Qualifier

Prajnesh and KU r playing in big Chengdu challenger ... KU used his protected ranking #471 for gaining direct entry in main-draw.

At $10K Vietnam F1 Futures, Thu Dau Mot City

[SF] (8) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,713) l (1) Seong Chan HONG (KOR,439) 06 26
[SF] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,965) bt Renta TOKUDA (JPN,1020) 61 64

Rishab is in the final with convincing win over his Japanese opponent Toduka ... In the final he is facing Korean Davis cupper Hong, who defeated Sasi losing only 2 games.

At $100K Granby Challenger, Canada

[Q1] Sanam Singh (IND,473) l Hiroyasu Ehara (JPN,601) 26 16

Sanam was back on the court ... Hopefully he will be fully fit from his shoulder injury ... But not a great comeback as he lost one-sided match.

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