Sunday, January 01, 2017

Tennis News

At $447K Chennai open 2017, India

[Q1] (WC) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,513) l (2) Nicolas Kicker (ARG,110) 76(5) 36 57
[Q1] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,477) bt (8) Marco Cecchinato (ITA,183) 75 61
[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,320) bt (6) Hiroki Moriya (JPN,173) 62 63

[Q2] (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,477) vs (2) Nicolas Kicker (ARG,110)
[Q2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,320) vs (3) Jozef Kovalik (SVK,117)

[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,227) vs Qualifier
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,192) vs (7) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS,57)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Nikola Mektic (CRO)
[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Steve Darcis (BEL)/ Benoit Paire (FRA)
[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) vs Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Purav (IND)
[R1] (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE)

A favorable draw for RamK as he is facing a qualifier in the first round ... Saki is having a tough match against veteran and very experienced Russian Mikhail Youzhny.

Brilliant upset wins by Yuki and Prajnesh in the qualifying against respective top-200 opponents ... In the first Yuki had trouble in holding his serve ... Yuki was 3-5 down before winning next four games ... Cecchinato had 4 set points on Yuki's serve in the 10th game, which he failed to convert ... Yuki immediately again broke him in the 11th game and then hold his serve for winning this set ... In the second set, Yuki dominated from the start as from 1-all he won next 5 games breaking Cecchinato in 3rd, 5th, and 7th games ... Next, he is facing Argentine Nicolas Kicker.

Prajnesh dominated his match from the start as he took 5-0 lead before Moriya hold ... Moriya broke him in next game but Prajnesh immediately broke back for winning this set ... In the second set, Prajnesh broke Moriya in 6th game for leading 4-2 and then hold his service games for terrific victory ... Next, he is facing Jozef Kovalik.

Sasi lost a very close match against #110 ranked Argentine Kicker ... Sasi started well winning the first set in the tie-break ... In the second set, Kicker took an early break for winning it ... In the third, till 10th game both players were on the serve but again Kicker took a crucial break in the 11th game for winning the match.

Doubles draw is out and our top pairing of Divij-Purav having tricky match against experienced Lee and Sa ... Saki and RamK r facing pairing of Darcis and Paire ... Rohan and Jeev r facing Mektic and Demoliner ... Bala and Vishnu r facing Swedish pair.


At $1M Brisbane WTA Internationals 2017, Australia

[R1] (1) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) vs Alize Cornet (FRA)/ Elise Mertens (BEL)

This week Sania is reunited with Bethanie in Brisbane Internationals.

At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Hong Kong, China

[Q1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,568) bt (14) Mizuno Kijima (JPN,518) 62 76(4)

[Q2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) vs (2) Ayano Shimizu (JPN,360)

Good straight sets win for Karman against higher ranked Japanese opponent ... Karman is next going to play with in-form Shimizu.

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