Saturday, October 08, 2016

Tennis News

At $5.45M Shanghai Masters, China

[R1] (6) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) bye

Rohan is partnering with Nestor and as seeded pair they r having bye in the first round.

At $250K WTA Hong Kong Open International, d

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,293) bt Chang Liu (CHN,216) 67(5) 64 63

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,293) vs (1) Marina Erakovic (NZL,120)

Good comeback win by Ankita against higher ranked top-220 Chinese player Liu ... After losing the first set in tie-break Ankita made strong comeback for winning next two ... Tough next match for Ankita against top-125 Erakovic.

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

[Q1] (2) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,443) bye
[Q1] (6) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,552) bye
[Q1] (7) Sanam Singh (IND,556) bt Congsup Congcar (THA,1408) 36 64 60
[Q1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,633) bt (WC) Ku Keon Kang (KOR,1560) 64 61

[Q2] (2) N.Sriram Balaji (IND,443) vs Hiroyasu Ehara (JPN,749)
[Q2] (6) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,552) vs Masato Shiga (JPN,588)
[Q2] (7) Sanam Singh (IND,556) vs Nebojsa Peric (SRB,1373)
[Q2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,633) vs (4) Laurent Rochette (FRA,465)

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,155) vs Andrew Whittington (AUS,177)
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,344) vs Andrea Arnaboldi (ITA,228)
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,227) vs Peter Gojowczyk (GER,190)

Bala, Vijay Sundar, Sanam and Sidharth r trying to qualify for main-draw for joining Saki, Prajnesh and RamK.

Saki is facing Whittington and RamK is facing Gojowczyk but I m more interested in performance of Prajnesh, who is facing Italian Arnaboldi.


At $125K+H Tashkent Challenger,, Uzbekistan

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,424) vs (1) Jiri Vesely (CZE,52)

Vishnu is facing Jiri in the first round but importantly he is travelling to Uzbekistan for this match is really pleasant.

At $25K+H France F21 Futures,Saint-Eloi (Indoor Hard)

[SF] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,229) l Albano Olivetti (FRA,427) 46 67(1)

RamK failed to handle big serve of Olivetti, who is having record of second fastest serve on the tour ... Olivetti won the first set with a break ... In the second set RamK was break down at 3-4 but he broke Olivetti is 10th game when Olivetti was serving for the match ... It seems in tie-break Olivetti's serve proved too strong for RamK.

At $10K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Hua Hin, Thailand


Singles Final
Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,576) l Hanyu GUO (CHN,522) 36 36

Karman failed to raise her game in the final and lost in straight sets against Hanyu Guo ... Need to learn for avoiding these type of bad day.

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