Sunday, February 26, 2017

Tennis News

At $599K Delray Beach Open 2017, Florida, USA

[SF] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (3) Treat Huey (PHI)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 26 16

One-sided and disappointing loss for Lee with Lu against Mirnyi and Huey ... Next, Lee is playing in Dubai open.

At $2.4M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2017, UAE

[Q1] (WC) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,335) l (6) Marius Copil (ROU,126) 26 26

Doubles
[Q1] (WC) Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA) bt (1) Wesely Koolhof (NED)/ Matwe Middlekoop (NED) 61 46 12-10

[Q2] (WC) Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA) vs (2) James Cerretani (USA)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT)

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Guillerme Garcia-Lopez (ESP) vs Qualifier
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) vs (2) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Marcel Granollers (ESP)

Prajnesh received qualifying wild-card but failed to challenge his top-125 Romanian opponent. Jeevan has also received the doubles wild-card with Italian Andreas Seppi ... And they started with an upset win over top-seed Dutch pair in the match tie-break ... Next, they r facing 2nd seed Cerretani and Oswald ... The winner of this match will face Lee and his partner Garcia-Lopez in the first round ... Rohan and his partner Matkowski r facing 2nd seed Dodig and Granollers.

At $1.6M Abierto Mexicano Telcel 2017, Acapulco, Mexico

[Q1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Radu Albot (ROU)/ Mischa Zverev (GER) 16 46

Once again Mischa Zverev with his partner proved too strong for Divij and Purav.

At $15K India F2 Futures, Jorhat

[R1] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Aryan GOVEAS (IND) 63 75
[R2] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Dalwinder SINGH (IND) 63 67(3) 63
[QF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Mateusz TERCZYNSKI (POL) 60 75
[SF] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (4) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) 63 64

[F] (1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 62 76(1)

Bala lifted his 8th futures title beating Vishnu Vardhan in the final ... Bala won double crown as he also won the doubles title with Vishnu.

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