Friday, February 03, 2017

Tennis News

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

India vs New Zealand 2-0

Day One
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,368) bt Finn Tearney (NZL,414) 64 64 63
[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,276) bt Jose Statham (NZL,417) 63 64 63

Favorable start for Indians as they r 2-0 up after end of the first day ... Though Yuki was in control of the match, he was break down in first 2 sets ... His overall game was looking superb with his trademark forehands but his serving looks susceptible as he is still recovering from tennis elbow ... RamK also scored impressive win ... He was serving big and used backhand slice shots effectively but this shot wouldn't work with top-200 players ... He needs to work on his backhand for moving ahead.

At $125 Dallas Challenger, Texas, USA

[SF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Denys Molchanov (UKR)/ Dennis Novikov (USA) 26 64 10-7

[F] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs (Q) David O'Hare (IRL)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR)

Jeevan-Chris r in the final with comeback win over Molchanov-Novikov ... After losing the first set they made excellent comeback for winning the next and match tie-break ... In the final they r facing Irish-British qualifiers.

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