Monday, May 15, 2017

Tennis News

At $75K+H Samarkand Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan (Red clay)

[Q3] (8) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,418) l (1) Danilo Petrovic (SRB,295) 46 46

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,262) l (4) Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP,176) 63 36 67(2)
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,270) l (3) Jason Jung (TPE,173) 63 67(1) 46

Again first round loss for Prajnesh but his losses were against higher ranked players and he gave fighting performance in those ... Here also, he started aftr winning the first set but Jung came back in the match after winning the tie-break comfortably and then completed win in the third.

With RamK's loss Indian challenge got over in the singles ... RamK also started with winning the first set but in the second set from 3-all he lost his serve in 8th game for losing the set ... In the final set, he took match into the tie-break but Adrian took 0-5 lead before winning it comfortably.

Vishnu lost in straight sets against Petrovic in the final qualifying.


At €106K+H Bordeaux Challenger 2017, France (Red clay)

[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Maxime Hamou (FRA)/ Romain Jouan (FRA) 75 60
[R1] (2) Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (WC) Gregoire Barrere (FRA)/ Mathias Bourgue (FRA)

[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Alex Bolt (AUS)/ Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)

Purav-Divij r playing in Bordeaux challenger with Lee ... Lee is back with Scott Lipsky, so maybe he is planning to participate in French open with Scott ... Both pairs r in bottom draw and can face each other in the semis.

Purav-Divij started with a comfortable win over local wild card pair ... Next, they r facing Aussie pair in the quarters ... Lee-Scott will also face local wild card pair in the first round.


At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Qujing, China

[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,325) vs (Q) Meiling Wang (CHN,1013)

Ankita is back in China for ITF tournament.

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