Thursday, November 03, 2016

Tennis News

At €3.7M BNP Paribas Masters 2016, Paris, France

[R1] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) bye
[R2] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) bt Lucas Pouille (FRA)/ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) 76(6) 67(2) 14-12

After long time seeing some fighting performance by Rohan and Nestor as pair ... They r in quarters of the Paris Masters with very hard fought close win against tricky French pair ... They won the first set in extra points of tie-break but French pair fought back winning the second set tie-break ... Our pair prevailed in 26 points long match tie-break after saving match points.

At $50K Canberra 2 Challenger, Australia

[R2] N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,598) l (8) John-Patrick Smith (AUS,234) 16 26
[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,358) l (5) James Duckworth (AUS,160) 36 36

Doubles
[QF] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Dayne Kelly (AUS)/ Max Purcell (AUS) 61 36 10-7

[SF] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs (2) Luke Saville (AUS)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS)

Sumit showed some glimpse of his talent but Duckworth proved better player for him ... VSP was over-powered by JPS in one-sided loss.

Bala-VSP scored another win in match tie-break against local pair for entering into the semis.


At $50K+H Eckental Challenger, Germany

[R1] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Maximilian Marterer (GER)/ Andreas Mies (GER) 36 63 11-9

[QF] (2) Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Kevin Krawietz (GER)/ Albano Olivetti (FRA)

Purav-Divij needed comeback win after losing the first set against local wild-card pair ... Next they r facing French-German combination.

At $10K Vietnam F9 Futures, Thu Dau Mot City

[R2] Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND,1011) l (6) Evan SONG (USA,719) 36 76(8) 36
[R2] (3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,527) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND,1084) 64 64
[R2] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,846) l Francis Casey ALCANTARA (PHI,1340) 06 64 06

[QF] (3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,527) vs (6) Evan SONG (USA,719)

Sasi scored straight sets win over Vinayak ... Next he is facing American Evan Song, who scored three sets win over Niki ... Rishab lost in weird looking scoreline ... He lost first and third set 0-6 and won the second set.

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