Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Tennis News

At €4.5M Rome Masters 2017, Spain

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) bt (WC) Simone Bolelli (ITA)/ Andreas Seppi (ITA) 64 62

[R2] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) vs (7) Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP)

Comfortable win for Rohan-Pablo ... After winning the first set they were 0-2 down before winning next 6 games in a row ... Next, they r facing 7th seed Lopezs.

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

[R1] (2) Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (WC) Gregoire Barrere (FRA)/ Mathias Bourgue (FRA) 62 75

[QF] (2) Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (WC) Maxime Janvier (FRA)/ Laurent Lokoli (FRA)

Lee-Scott started with straight sets win over local pair ... Next, they r facing another local wildcard pair.

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

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Joris De Loore (BEL)/ Aldin Setkic (BIH) 3-1 retd.
[R1] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Nikola Milojevic (SRB)/ Michael Mmoh (USA) 76(3) 36 10-5

[QF] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Denys Molchanov (UKR)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)
[QF] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (WC) Farrukh Dustov (UZB)/ Sanjar Fayziev (UZB)

RamK-Matsui entered into the quarters after winning their match in the match tie-break ... Next, they r facing local wild card pair, who scored upset win over 2nd seed ... Vishnu-Prajnesh also joined them as their opponents retired after De Loore neck injury ... Next, they r facing Ukrainian pair, who also scored upset win over 3rd seed.

At $75K Heilbronn Challenger 2017, Germany (Red Clay)

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt James Cerretani (USA)/ Andreas Mies (GER) 61 57 10-7

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs (1) Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Antonio Sancic (CRO)

Jeevan-Chris started with the match tie-break win over experienced Cerretani and Mies ... Next, they r facing top-seed pairing of Jebavy and Sancic.

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

[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,325) l (Q) Meiling Wang (CHN,1013) 26 26

Poor loss for Ankita against 17 yrs old Chinese girl.

At $25K Nigeria F3 futures 2017,

[R1] Haadin BAVA (IND,796) bt (8) Fernando ROMBOLI (BRA,486) 76(4) 67(6) 64
[R1] Kunal ANAND (IND,1346) bt (WC) Christian PAUL (NGR,UNR) 61 61
[R1] (5) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,426) bt Anvit BENDRE (IND,UNR) 64 61
[R1] Mohit JAIN (IND,UNR) l (2) Brayden SCHNUR (CAN,264) 16 06

[R2] Haadin BAVA (IND,796) vs Karim HOSSAM (EGY,1057)
[R2] Kunal ANAND (IND,1346) vs (7) Takanyi GARANGANGA (ZIM,432)
[R2] (5) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND,426) vs Christopher DIAZ-FIGUEROA (GUA,754)

Haadin has started to show some consistency in his results ... Here he started with hard fought upset win over top-500 Brazilian opponent Romboli ... Sasi and Kunal also joined him with straight sets win.

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