Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Tennis News

At $7.7M BNP Paribas Open 2017, Indian Wells, California, USA

[QF] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) l (6) Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Martina Hingis (SUI) 46 46

Sania and Barbora lost in straight sets against Hingis and Chan ... So next is Miami Masters.

At $75K+H Shenzhen Challenger 2017, China

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,341) bt Stefano Napolitano (ITA,175) 75 62

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,341) vs Nikola Milojevic (SRB,194)

Yuki scored really god straight sets win over consistent challenger level player Napolitano ... In the first set, Yuki broke Napolitano in the 7th game but he failed to hold his serve in next game ... He saved 2 set points in 10th game while serving and then took crucial break in 11th game for winning this set ... In the second set Yuki took early break and extended that advantage for double break for winning this set and match comfortably .. Next, he is facing Serbian Nikola Milojevic, who scored an upset win over 3rd seed Baena.

At $150K+H Irving Challenger, Texas, USA

[Q3] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,277) l (6) Andrey Rublev (RUS,134) 63 36 26

Doubles
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (2) Brian Baker (USA)/ Nicholas Monroe (USA) 36 76(3) 10-5

RamK lost in three sets against Andrey Rublev after winning the first set ... As per report, RamK has very one dimension game as he is not mixing well ... Need a some good work under decent coach for improving this and also need to work on transitioning from defense to attack but this thing lack in our most of the players ... In this match RamK failed to attack and keep pressure on Rublev after winning the first set.

Superb hard fought comeback win for Divij and Purav against 2nd seed American pair Baker-Monroe ... After losing the first set they needed to dig deep for winning next in tie-break and then dominating the match tie-break.

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