Sunday, May 28, 2017

Tennis News

At Roland Garros 2017, Paris, France

[R1] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) vs Daria Gavrilova (AUS)/ Anastasi Pavlyuchenkova (RUS)

[R1] Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)/ Gilles Muller (LUX)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Steve Johnson (USA)
[R1] (9) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) vs (WC) Mathias Bourgue (FRA)/ Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)

Doubles draw is out ... 4th seed Sania-Yaroslava r in bottom draw.

Lee-Scott can face top-seed Kontinen and Peers, if they win their first round ... Overall our pairs having winnable first round matches.

Abhimanyu Vannem Reddy secured the French Open junior wild card by beating Hikaru Shiraishi of Japan, 61 46 61, in the final of the Rendezvous Roland Garros tournament in Paris on Saturday.


At $60K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Luan, China

Courtesy of Ankita Raina's FB page
Singles Final
Ankita Raina (IND,321) l (1) Lin Zhu (CHN,124) 36 63 46

Ankita lost in the final against top-125 Lin Zhu in three sets ... Still this was excellent week for her as she reached her first ITF tournament in $50K and above event.

After losing the first set, Ankita was break down 2-3 in the second but she made superb fightback for winning next 4 games to win this set ... In the final set, Zhu took 5-0 lead and from here Ankita tried comeback ... She won next 4 games saving 4 match points but failed to hold her serve in 10th for the loss.


At $25K Romania F2 Futures 2017, Bacau

Singles Final
(5) Sumit Nagal (IND,405) l (3) Goncalo Oliveira (POR,379) 63 36 06

Sumit started well and broke Oliveira in 2nd to lead 3-0 ... He kept that advantage for winning the first set ... In the second set, Sumit was early break down 1-4, he broke Oliveira to make it 3-4 but Oliveira again broke him in next game for winning the set .... In the final set, Sumit failed to challenge Oliveira, hoping no injury scare ... Oliveira broke Sumit in 1st, 3rd and 5th games for winning it comfortably ... So other than these final two sets this week was good for Sumit.

At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Andijan, Uzbekistan

[R1] (Q) Kyra SHROFF (IND,736) vs (8) Kamila KERIMBAYEVA (KAZ,365)
[R1] (Q) Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND,629) vs (WC) Komola UMAROVA (UZB,851)
[R1] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND,474) vs Melis SEZER (TUR,448)

Kyra and Dhruthi qualified for main-draw to join Karman ... Karman and Kyra having tough matches in the first round.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

congrats Ankita & Sumit

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