Saturday, March 18, 2017

Tennis News

At $75K+H Shenzhen Challenger 2017, China

[SF] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,341) l (2) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,115) 64 46 36

Yuki lost in the semis against Sugita after winning the first set ... Yuki was tired due to yesterday's long match and Sugita kept ball in play so tiring further ... In the first set, Yuki broke Sugita in 2nd game but lost his serve in the next ... Yuki again broke Sugita in 6th game but this time also Sugita broke him in the next ... Yuki broke Sugita in 10th game for winning the set ... From second set Sugita was trying to play long rallies ... Both players were on the serve till 8th game, 4-all ... Sugita broke Yuki in 9th game and then hold for winning the set ... In the final set, Yuki was looking very tired and Sugita took full advantage of it ... Sugita broke him 5ht and 9th games for winning this match.

At $15K India F5 Futures, Bangalore

[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) bt Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) 76(2) 75
[R2] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma (IND) 62 75
[QF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) bt (7) Sidharth Rawat (IND) 63 63
[SF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) bt Karunuday Singh (IND) 46 63 75

Singles Final
(2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) bt (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) 26 63 64

Doubles Final
(2) Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) bt (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 26 64 10-6

Bala takes revenge of his last week's defeat against Prajnesh with comeback win in this futures ... Bala has been showing consistency in these futures series with 2 titles and 2 finals.

Sood brothers defeated in-form Bala and Vishnu in the final for lifting the title.

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