Thursday, May 04, 2017

Tennis News

At €540K Estoril Open 2017, Portugal (Red clay)

[QF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Ariel Behar (URU)/ Aliaksandr Bury (BLR) 57 36
[QF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) l Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP) 67(2) 64 8-10

Our both pairs lost in the quarters in contrasting style ... Lee-Andre managed to take the match in match tie-break but failed to win it against Spanish pair ... Divij-Purav lost in straight sets.

At $75K Savannah Challenger 2017, Georgia, USA (green clay)

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,217) l (6) Stefan Kozlov (USA,144) 16 26

Doubles
[QF] Andre Ghem (BRA)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l (3) Luke Bambridge (GBR)/ Mitchell Krueger (USA) 26 36

The one-sided loss in an hour for RamK against Kozlov ... Also in the doubles, failed to produce much fight with his Brazilian partner Ghem against 3rd seed.

At $75K+H Ostrava Challenger, Czech Republic (Clay)

[R1] (1) Franko Skugor (CRO)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Marco Cecchinato (ITA)/ Matteo Donati (ITA) 63 63
[R1] (WC) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ David Poljak (CZE) l Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP)/ Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP) 26 64 7-10

[QF] (1) Franko Skugor (CRO)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Norbet Gombos (SVK)/ Zdnek Kolar (CZE) 64 57 10-3

[SF] (1) Franko Skugor (CRO)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP)/ Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP)

Jeevan and Skugor r in the semis and facing Spanish pair, who defeated Sumit and his partner in the first round ... Jeevan and Skugor scored back to back win over good clay court specialist pairs.

At $50K+H Gimcheon Challenger 2017, Korea

[QF] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Brydan Klein (GBR) bt (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 76(3) 46 11-9

[SF] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Brydan Klein (GBR) vs Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/ Marco Chiudinelli (SUI)

Yuki-Brydan scored hard fought upset win over top-seed Ratiwatanas ... After winning the first set Yuki-Brydan lost the second but they kept fighting in the match tie-break for winning it on extra points ... Next, they r facing experienced eimuraz Gabashvili and Marco Chiudinelli.

At $25K Nigeria F1 Futures 2017, Abuja

[QF] Haadin BAVA (IND,833) l Moez ECHARGUI (TUN,792) 16 36

Straight sets loss for Haadin against Moez.

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