Friday, May 19, 2017

Tennis News

At €4.5M Rome Masters 2017, Italy

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) l (4) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA) 67(5) 76(2) 10-12

Rohan-Pablo lost in really close match against 4th seed French pair ... After losing the first set in tie-break, ROhan-Pablo fought back for winning the second set tie-break ... Again both pairs were neck to neck in the match tie-break which French pair won on extra points.

At $2.77M Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2017, Rome, Italy (Premier 5)

[QF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) bt (WC) Sara Errani (ITA)/ Martina Trevisan (ITA) 64 61

[SF] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) vs (2) Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)/ Martina Hingis (SUI)

Sania-Yaroslava entered into the semis with comfortable win over wildcard Italian pair ... In the semis, they r facing 2nd seed Hingis and Chan.

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

[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (2) Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) 62 63

[F] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (4) Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/ Artem Sitak (NZL)

Divij-Purav scored comfortable win over Lee-Scott for entering into the final.

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

Doubles Final
Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l Laurynas Grigelis (LTU)/ Zdenek Kolar (CZE) 67(2) 36

Prajnesh-Vishnu failed to lift the title against Kolar and Grigelis but overall really good performance by them.

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