Sunday, October 30, 2016

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2017 - Asia/Oceania Group I,

AITA has taken decision that the India-New Zealand Asia/Oceania Group I tie will be played in Pune from February 3-5 ... So after 42 years Davis cup tie is coming back to Pune ... There are also speculation that there will be some changes in support staff as Anad Amritraj and Zeeshan Ali's contract is getting over in December.

At $50K Canberra 2 Challenger, Australia

[R1] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,551) vs Luke Saville (AUS,273)
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,346) vs Maverick Banes (AUS,438)
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,352) vs Dayne Kelly (AUS,328)
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,442) vs Marc Polmans (AUS,262)

Doubles
[R1] Omar Jasika (AUS)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) vs (1) Matt Reid (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS)
[R1] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs Jarmere Jenkins (USA)/ Anderson Reed (USA)

Winnable matches for Sumit and Prajnesh ... Hoping for better performance from them so that can help them in securing their place Australian open qualifying.

At $50K+H Eckental Challenger, Germany

[R1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (WC) Maximilian Marterer (GER)/ Andreas Mies (GER)

Purav and Divij r playing in German challenger and facing local wild-card pair.

At $50K Charlottesville Challenger, USA

[Q1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,330) bye
[Q2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,330) bt Jonathan Ho (USA,1547) 64 64

[Q3] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND,330) vs Petros Chrysochos (CYP,939)

Yuki received bye in the first round ... In the second qualifying round he faced lower ranked American, Yuki defeated him in straight sets ... In the final qualifying he is facing Cyprus's Chrysochos, who is current the ITA all American championships winner.

At $10K Vietnam F8 Futures, Thu Dau Mot City

[R1] (8) Rishab AGARWAL (IND,863) bt Artem VU (VIE,UNR) 61 64
[R1] Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND,1000) bt Hoa TRAN VAN (VIE,UNR) 61 60

[R2] (8) Rishab AGARWAL (IND,863) bt Maciej SMOLA (POL,1005) 63 76(3)
[R2] Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND,1000) bt (7) Jurabek KARIMOV (UZB,755) 61 13 retd.

[QF] (8) Rishab AGARWAL (IND,863) bt David Agung SUSANTO (INA,789) 61 63
[QF] Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND,1000) l (3) Young Seok KIM (KOR,610) 46 36

[SF] (8) Rishab AGARWAL (IND,863) bt Ken ONISHI (JPN,1158) 61 63

Singles Final
(8) Rishab AGARWAL (IND,863) l(5) Enzo COUACAUD (FRA,707) 26 16

Rishab gave excellent performance reaching the final of Vietnam futures ... In the final he facing former top-200 Frenchman Couacaud, who proved too strong for him ... Still promising performance from Rishab ... Also Niki reached in the quarters here.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

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