Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Tennis News

At €1.9M Aegon Championship 2017, London, England

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt (1) Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ John Peers (AUS) 76(2) 46 10-2

Really good upset win by Rohan and Dodig against WR #1 pair ... After winning the first set in the tie-break they lost the second but Rohan-Ivan recovered for winning the match tie-break comfortably.

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

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,226) l Taylor Fritz (USA,132) 61 67(3) 36

Doubles
[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 76(1) 62
[QF] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 26 46

[SF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs John Millman (AUS)/ Luke Saville (AUS)

Yuki missed opportunity of upsetting Taylor Fritz as he lost in three sets ... Yuki won the first set with a triple break ... In the second set, he was 2 points away at 5-2 and 15-30 on Fritz's serve and in next game on his serve again he was 2 points away from completing the win at 503 and 30-0 but lost 4 points in a row to get broken ... Fritz won the tie-break easily and then with a single break won the final set completing excellent comeback.

Lee-Adil scored straight sets victory over Vasilevski and Podlipnik-Castillo ... But really disappointed by Divij-Purav's one-sided loss against Ratiwatanas ... In the semis, Lee-Adil r facing Aussie pair.


At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[QF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Sergey Betov (BLR) 76(4) 57 10-8

Vishnu-Bala needed to dig deep for their win in the match tie-break against Prajnesh-Betov.

At $50K+H Blois Challenger 2017, France (Red clay)

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Alexey Vatutin (RUS) bt (WC) Luke Purser (GBR)/ Thomas Rodrigues (FRA) 60 62

[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Alexey Vatutin (RUS) vs Sander Arends (NED)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)

Dominating winning start for RamK and his partner Vatutin .... Next, they r facing Dutch-Taipei pair.

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

[R1] (Q) Prerna Bhambri (IND,985) l Yana Sizikova (RUS,516) 16 06
[R1] Natasha Palha (IND,777) bt Arina Folts (UZB,724) 67(4) 62 64
[R1] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,624) bt Valeriya Zeleva (RUS,842) 64 57 62

[R2] Natasha Palha (IND,777) vs (5) Valeriya Strakhova (UKR,349)
[R2] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,624) vs (3) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB,225)

Hard fought wins for Natasha and Dhruthi but both having tough second round matches.

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