Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Tennis News

At €6.4M Madrid Masters 2017, Spain

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) vsl Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Daniel Nestor (CAN) 36 26

A one-sided loss for Rohan-Pablo against Martin-Nestor.

At $5.9M Mutua Madrid Open 2017, Spain

[R2] (3) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) bt Christina Mchale (USA)/ Monica Niculescu (ROU) 61 75

Sania and Yaraslova started with straight sets win over Mchale and Niculescu.

At $75K+H Karshi Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,283) bt Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,269) 64 62
[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,315) bt (WC) Farrukh Dustov (UZB,883) 63 61
[R1] (7) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,217) l Cem Ilkel (TUR,323) 46 46

[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,273) vs (8) Aldin Setkic (BIH,231)
[R2] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,318) vs Egor Gerasimov (BLR,225)

Doubles
[R1] Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l (1) Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 67(7) 36
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Jason Jung (TPE) l Aslan Karatsev (RUS)/ Aldin Setkic (BIH) 46 62 4-10
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (4) Sergey Betov (BLR)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR) 67(8) 67(8)

In the battle of Indians, Yuki showed supremecy over his fellow Indian ... He defeated Prajnesh convincingly ... In the first set, Yuki broke Prajnesh in 7th game to take 4-3 lead and kept this break advantage for winning the set ... In the second set, he broke Prajnesh 5th and 7th games for winning it comfortably ... In the second round, he is facing 8th seed Aldin Setkic.

Bala took full advantage of a weak draw and scored dominating win over Uzbek Davis cupper Farrukh Dustov ... Next, he is facing Egor Gerasimov, who defeated his seeded countryman in the first round.

RamK failed to challenge Ilkel in his loss, may be struggling with jet lag ... He also lost in the first round of the doubles with his Japanese partner.

It was a terrible day in the doubles as our other two pairs also lost in the first round ... Yuki-Jung lost in the match tie-break ... And Vishnu-Bala lost against 4th seed Belarus pair in two tight tie-breaks.


At $75K Rome Challenger, Italy (Red Clay)

[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) l Kimmer Coppejans (BEL)/ Marton Fucsovics (HUN) 67(3) 36

Jeevan and Rungkat lost in the first round against Coppejans and Fucsovics.

At $15K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Hua Hin, Thailand

[R1] (4) Ankita Raina (IND,319) bt (Q) Yukun Zhang (CHN,710) 61 61

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,522) vs Chihiro Muramatsu (JPN,583)
[R2] (4) Ankita Raina (IND,319) vs Giuliana Olmos (MEX,514)

Ankita started with dominating win over Chinese qualifier ... Next, she is facing Mexican girl Olmos and Karman is facing Japanese girl Muramatsu.

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