Saturday, December 03, 2016

Tennis News

At AO Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off 2016, Zhuhai, China

[SF] (5) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,284) l (1) Denis Istomin (UZB,121) 26 61 9-11

Doubles
[F] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l (3) Cheng Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 16 46

Prajnesh missed big opportunity of entering in the final after missing 3 match points in the decider ... After losing the first set easily Prajnesh made strong comeback dominating the second set ... In the decider he took early break in 3rd game, 2-1, but while serving for the match at 5-4 he failed to convert 3 match points ... After that it was game of fitness and Istomin was better ... He broke Prajnesh in 20th game for completing victory ... At 7-all Prajnesh twisted his ankle while returning, so after that he was hobbling.

Jeevan-VSP also missed chance AO wildcard as they lost in straight sets against Taipei pair.


At $10K Indonesia F4 Futures 2016, Jakarta

[QF] Sidharth Rawat (IND,613) bt (7) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,575) 64 67(2) 62
[QF] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,533) bt (Q) Cing-Yang Meng (TPE,1302) 62 64

[SF] Sidharth Rawat (IND,613) l Shintaro Imai (JPN,598) 46 57
[SF] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,533) l (4) Enzo Couacaud (FRA,527) 26 26

Sid scored three sets win over his seeded Japanese opponent for entering into the semis ... Sasi scored comfortable straight sets win over Taipei qualifier ... But in the semifinal our both players failed to overcome challenge of their respective opponents ... Sasi was overpowered by former top-200 type Frenchman and this time Sid failed to overcome challenge of his Japanese opponent ... Still good week for Sid and Sasi.

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