Thursday, December 22, 2016

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2017 - Asia/ Oceania Group I - 1st Round, Pune, India

Indian Team - Saketh Myneni, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Yuki Bhambri, Leander Paes, Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Non-playing Captain - Anand Amritraj
Coach - Zeeshan Ali

In big change All India Tennis Association has appointed Mahesh Bhupathi as the non-playing captain for the India Davis Cup team ... Anand Amritraj will continue to hold the post for first Davis Cup tie of the year against New Zealand in the Asia Oceania zone in Pune ... So after this tie Mahesh will take helm of the team.

The committee also announced team for New Zeland, giving Lee and Saki pairing another chance to play togather ... This 5 members team will trimmed down to 4 members before the tie.


At $10K Hong Kong F4 Futures, Hong Kong, China

[R2] (3) Yuki BHAMBRI (IND,530) bt (WC) Ching LAM (HKG,UNR) 61 61
[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,1433) l (8) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,635) 36 46
[R2] (WC) Karan RASTOGI (HKG,UNR) l (2) Shintaro IMAI (JPN,499) 75 46 67(4)

[QF] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,530) vs (6) Yecong He (CHN,631)

Yuki scored dominating win over local wild-card player ... In the quarters he is facing former top-500 Chinese player ... Other hand Karan lost really close match against top-500 Japanese player after winning the first ... KU must be disappointed with his performance after his loss.

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