Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Tennis News

At $100K+H Bratislava Challenger, Slovakia

[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Andrej Martin (SVK)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 64 60

Dominating win by Divij and Purav in the first round.

At $75K Ortisei Challenger, Italy

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,228) l (SE) Kevin Krawietz (GER,391) 46 46

Doubles
[R1] Alessandro Motti (ITA)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP)/ Luca Vanni (ITA) 67(10) 63 16-14

[QF] Alessandro Motti (ITA)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (3) Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Dino Marcan (CRO)

RamK needs to work on his game, importantly on his backhand ... With this weakness it is difficult to be successful on the tour ... He lost in straight sets against his German opponent.

RamK-Motti scored a win in 30 pts long match tie-break after saving multiple match points ... After losing the first set in long tie-break RamK-Motti fought back for winning the second with a break ... Then both pairs tried hard in match tie-break but RamK-Motti prevailed ... Next they r facing 3rd seed Italian-Croatian pair.


At $50K+H Kobe Challenger, Japan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,286) l Laurent Lokoli (FRA,325) 36 67(0)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Ti Chen (TPE)/ Amir Weintraub (ISR) 60 64

[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Ruben Gonzales (PHI)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN)

Prajnesh lost against Frenchman in straight sets ... After losing the first set Prajnesh tried fightback in the second ... He was break up and serving for the set at 6-5 but Prajnesh failed to hold and then lost tie-break without winning a point.

Easy winning start for Jeevan and Rungkat in the doubles ... Next they r facing Filipino-Japanese pair.


At $50K Knoxville Challenger, USA

[Q3] Yuki Bhambri (IND,546) bt (3) Tim Van Rijthoven (NED,334) 75 63

[R1] (Q) Yuki Bhambri (IND,546) vs Michael Mmoh (USA,268)

Yuki qualified for main-draw with straight sets win over talented young Dutch player Tim ... In the first set Yuki was double break down at 1-4 after that he made excellent comeback for winning 6 games from next 7 games to win this set ... After that Yuki controlled next set for winning this match ... In main-draw he is facing 18 yrs old young American Michael Mmoh.

At $25K Australia F9 Futures, Wollongong

[R1] (2) Sumit Nagal (IND,350) bt Daniel Nolan (AUS,696) 61 61

Doubles
[R1] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) l Nathan PASHA (USA)/ Darren Polkinghorne (AUS) 36 67(4)

Dominating winning start for Sumit against local player ... But in the doubles Sumit lost with Bala against American-Australian pair.

At $25K+H ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2016, Pune, India

[R1] Prerna Bhambri (IND,488) l (1) Irina Khromacheva (RUS.92) 36 46
[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,602) bt (Q) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,868) 46 64 50 retd.
[R1] (Q) Nidhi Chilumula (IND,867) l (8) Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,261) 26 16
[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,284) bt Chieh-Yu Hsu (TPE,420) 64 16 61
[R1] (Q) Eetee Maheta (IND,754) l Laura Pigossi (BRA,378) 36 46
[R1] (WC) Riya Bhatia (IND,549) l Ana Veselinovic (MNE,429) 06 06

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,602) vs (1) Irina Khromacheva (RUS,92)
[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,284) vs Magdalena French (POL,320)

Expected win for Ankita, though in three sets ... Next she is facing Polish opponent Magdalena French ... Karman also scored good win over in-form Sowjanya, after Sowjanya retired in the third set ... Next she is having tough match against top-100 Russian player Irina Khromacheva.

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