Thursday, August 04, 2016

Tennis News

At $618K BB&T Atlanta Open 2016, USA

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) w/o (Stakhovsky - left leg)

Lucky break for Indian pair as they received walkover from Ukrainian pair for reaching in the semis.

At $100K Granby Challenger, Canada

[QF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) bt Tristan Lamasine (FRA)/ Vincent Millot (FRA) 67(5) 76(2) 11-9

[SF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) vs (2) Jarryd Chaplin (AUS)/ Mitchell Krueger (USA)

Really hard fought comeback win for Saki-Sanam against French pair in this long match ... In a way this was a good test for assessing Saki's fitness and Sanam's confidence ... After losing the first set in tie-break our pair needed to dig deep before winning the second set tie-break comfortably ... In match tie-break also both pairs were neck to neck before our pair completed win in a tight situation ... Next they r facing 2nd seed Aussie-American pair.

At $25K USA F26 Futures, Decatur, IL

[R1] (1) Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND,199) l (Q) Dominik KOEPFER (GER,986) 63 36 46

Disappointing loss of RamK against German qualifier.

At $10K Vietnam F2 Futures, Thu Dau Mot City

[R2] Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,706) bt (8) Arata ONOZAWA (JPN,640) 61 63
[R2] Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,729) l (2) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,473) 46 06

[QF] Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,706) vs (2) Antoine ESCOFFIER (FRA,473)

Sasi scores comfortable upset win over Japanese 8th seed but next he is facing top-500 Frenchman, who defeated two Indians in first 2 rounds.

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