Thursday, October 27, 2016

Tennis News

At €2.46M Erste Bank Open 2016, Vienna, Austria

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) l Pablo Cuevas (URU)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) 46 46

Somehow this was expected loss of Rohan and Nestor ... Not sure age is catching up or lack of suitable partner is reason for Rohan's loss of form.

At $50K Pune Challenger, India

[R2] (WC) Dhruv Sunish (IND,1640) l (1) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,108) 36 26
[R2] (5) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,229) l Sadio Doumbia (FRA,359) 26 57
[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,352) l (4) Adrian Menendez Maceiras (ESP,248) 76(2) 67(6) 46
[R2] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,346) bt N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,551) 64 62
[R2] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND,203) bt Sidharth Rawat (IND,644) 60 26 61
[R2] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,415) l (7) Dimitry Popko (KAZ,265) 46 46

[QF] (3) Saketh Myneni (IND,203) vs (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,346)

Doubles
[R1] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Anvit Bendre (IND)/ Sidharth Rawat (IND) 63 64

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l Nikola Milojevic (SRB)/ Danilo Petrovic (SRB) 36 46
[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND)/ Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND) 62 64

Disappointing performance by Indian contingent in the singles ... Only Saki and Prajnesh managed to win but that also against Indian opponents ... RamK's straights sets loss against lower ranked Frenchman was hurting as he needs to take advantage of such weak draw and wining more matches at home challenger ... Sumit missed golden opportunity of beating his top-250 ranked Spanish opponent ... He was serving for the match at 6-5 in the second set and was 30-all ... He failed to hold his serve and in tie-break he was 0-3 down ... Sumit won next 6 points for leading 6-3 ... He failed to convert any match point and lost 5 points in a row for losing the set .. Andrian took early break in the third and kept that advantage for wining it.

Expected winning start for Lee with Ramk against Anvit and Sidharth ... In quarters I was hoping better performance by Vishnu and Bala but Jeevan and VSP r in the semis with comfortable win.

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