Monday, October 10, 2016

Tennis News

At $50K+H Ho Chi Minh City Challenger, Vietnam

[Q3] (7) Sanam Singh (IND,556) bt (3) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,450) 62 62
[Q3] (6) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,552) bt (2) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,443) 76(1) 62

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,155) bt Andrew Whittington (AUS,177) 62 64
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,344) bt Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA,228) 76(1) 3-2 retd.
[R1] (Q) Sanam Singh (IND,559) vs Yuya Kibi (JPN,235)
[R1] (Q) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,555) vs (8) Tastumi Ito (JPN,162)

[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,154) vs (3) Taro Daniel (JPN,90)
[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,344) vs (6) Go Soeda (JPN,129)

Prajnesh moved into the second round with gritty performance against top-225 ranked Arnaboldi ... He kept fighting in the first round before winning one-sided tie-break ... In the second set he took 3-0 lead but Arnaboldi fought back for 3-2 before retiring from the match ... Next Prajnesh is facing very experienced Japanese Go Soeda.

Saki also started with comfortable win over Aussie Whittington ... After winning the first set with double break Saki broke Whittington in 1st game of the second set ... Whittington immediately broke back but Saki against broke him in 3rd for 2-1 lead ... After that Saki kept that advantage and saved couple of break points while serving for the match in 10th game ... He converted his first match point for moving to next round ... Next match is real toughie one for Saki against top-90 Taro Daniel.

Before that Sanam scored really dominating win over Kento Takeuchi to qualify for main-draw ... In the first round he is facing another Japanese challenge of top-250 ranked Yuya Kibi ... VSP also joins him in the main-draw with straight sets win over Bala ... In main-draw he is also facing another Japanese challenge of top-170 ranked Tastumi Ito.


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