Thursday, May 11, 2017

Tennis News

At $5.9M Mutua Madrid Open 2017, Spain

[QF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) l Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/ Simona Halep (ROU) 36 63 6-10

Not as such a great start for Sania-Yaroslava as they lost in the quarters against Romanian pairing of Begu and Halep in the match tie-break.

At $75K+H Karshi Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,283) bt (1) Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR,96) 62 64

[SF] Yuki Bhambri (IND,273) vs Egor Gerasimov (BLR,225)

Yuki scored dominating win over top-100 Sergiy Stakhovsky in two sets, also first top-100 win of season 2017 ... This is a huge win for Yuki before French open qualifying and simply showing that he is coming back to his form after injury break ... In the first set, after 2-all he dominated Stakhovsky ... He broke Stakhovsky in 5th and 7th games for winning this set comfortably after converting 4th set point ... In the second set, Yuki broke Stakhovsky in 3rd game and then hold his service games for winning this match ... In this match, Yuki played attacking game and his ground strokes had power, authority and placement ... Next, he is facing Belarus player Egor Gerasimov.

At $15K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Hua Hin, Thailand

[QF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,522) bt Giuliana Olmos (MEX,514) 61 63

[SF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,522) vs (2) Peangtarn Plipuech (THA,270)

Karman moved to the semi-final with dominating win over Mexican girl Olmos, who defeated Ankita in the second round ... Next, she is having tough match against local top-275 player for place in the final.

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