Monday, June 19, 2017

Tennis News

At $820K Aegon Classic Birmingham 2017, England (Premier)

[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) bt Darija Jurak (CRO)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 62 64

Comfortable winning start for Sania with Coco against Jurak and Rodionova.

At $150K+H Ilkley Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,226) bt Peter Polansky (CAN,127) 67(4) 76(7) 63

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,226) vs Taylor Fritz (USA,132)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Matt Reid (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS)
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Victor Estrella Burgos (DOM)/ Darian King (BAR)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Sergio Galdos (PER) vs Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 67(6) 67(5)

Yuki scored a good comeback win over Peter Polansky and took revenge of his loss against same player in French open qualifying ... In the first set, Yuki had total 7 break points but he failed to convert ... In that, he had 2 set points on Polansky serve at 5-6 and 15-40 ... After that Polansky comfortably won the tie-break ... In the second set, Yuki broke Polansky and was serving for the set at 5-4 but failed to hold ... Both were winning points on their serve in the tie-break ... Yuki saved a match point at 6-7 and converted 2nd set point for taking the match in the decider ... In the third set, Yuki took a crucial break in 8th game to lead 5-3 and then comfortably hold for completing deserving win ... Next, he is having tough match against big server American, Taylor Fritz.

This week, Lee is partnering Adil Shamasdin and they r facing tricky Aussie pair in the first round ... Divij-Purav r facing Burgos-King ... But, Jeevan lost in the first round partnering Paraguayan Galdos, they lost both sets in the tie-breaks against their opponents.


At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,287) l (6) Brayden Schnur (CAN,245) 57 36

Doubles
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Sergey Betov (BLR) bt (WC) Saida'Lo Saidkarimov (UZB)/ Batyr Sapaev (UZB) 61 62

Bala lost in straight sets against Schnur.

Prajnesh and Betov started dominatingly against local wildcard pair.


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

[R1] (Q) Prerna Bhambri (IND,985) vs Yana Sizikova (RUS,516)
[R1] Natasha Palha (IND,777) vs Arina Folts (UZB,724)
[R1] Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,624) vs Valeriya Zeleva (RUS,842)
[R1] (7) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,405) vs Elena Rybakina (RUS,533)

Good to see Prerna qualified for main-draw ... Winnable matches for Indians.

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