Saturday, September 10, 2016

Tennis News

At Davis Cup World Group Play-off 2016, New Delhi, India

Rohan Bopanna pulled out of the Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie, claiming that he suffered a knee injury during the US Open ... Sumit Nagal, who was named as a reserve in the side, will now be making his Davis Cup debut and will be a playing member of the squad.

At $75K+H Nanchang Challenger, China

[Q1] (6) Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND,612) bye
[Q2] (6) Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND,612) bt (WC) Xi Qi (CHN,1212) 62 62

[Q3] (6) Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND,612) vs (3) Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,402)

Jeevan is playing in qualifying of Nanchang challenger ... In the final qualifying round he is facing top-400 Sekiguchi.

At $10K+H Italy F28 Futures, Reggio Emilia (clay)

[SF] (1) Sumit Nagal (IND,394) l (4) Stefano Travaglia (ITA,483) 67(0) 67(5)

Sumit lost his match in two tie-breaks against former top-200 player Travaglia ... In the first set both players hold their respective service games for taking set into tie-break ... Travaglia dominated tie-break for winning it without losing a single point ... In the second set Sumit took early break but Travaglia broke back ... In tie-break Sumit was leading 5-2 but Travaglia won next five points for completing win in two sets.

At $10K India F4 Futures, Chennai

Singles Final
(1) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND) bt (4) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) 36 75 76(3)

Prajnesh lifted his fourth futures title beating Bala in comeback win ... Bala was serving for the match at 5-4 of third set but failed to hold ... In tie-break Prajnesh dominated for this fighting win.

Before that in the doubles Bala won his 35th futures doubles title partnering Vijay Sundar Prashanth.

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