Saturday, June 24, 2017

Tennis News

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

[SF] Sania Mirza (IND)/ CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) l (4) Ashleigh Barty (AUS)/ Casey Dellacqua (AUS) w/o

This time Sania-Coco gave walkover to their Aussie opponents.

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

Courtesy Lee's FB page
Doubles Final
(1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt (WC) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) 26 62 10-8

Lee-Adil produced excellent comeback for winning Ilkley challenger against local pair ... After losing the first set easily, Lee-Adil took control of the match for winning the second set easily ... In the match tie-break, British pair also tried hard but Lee-Adil used their experience for winning the title ... So this year, Lee won three challenger titles on three different surfaces ... Leon challenger, Mexico on hard court, Tallahassee Challenger, USA on clay court and Ilkley Challenger, UK on grass court.

At €636K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England

[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) vs (3) Ryan Harrison (USA)/ Michael Venus (NZL)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) vs (2) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)

This week, Rohan is playing with Andre Sa and facing last week's partner Dodig with his Wimbledon partner Roger-Vasselin ... Jeevan is also playing with Reid.

At $439K Antalya Open 2017, Turkey (Grass)

[Q1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) bt Andrey Yekolov (RUS,1835) 60 60

[Q2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) vs Yannik Mertens (BEL,267)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Wesley Koolhof (NED)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Tuna Altuna (TUR)/ David Ferrer (ESP)

RamK started with giving double bagel to his opponent but next his match against Mertens is tough.

In the doubles, Lee-Adil r 4th seed and facing Dutch pair ... Divij-Purav r facing wildcard pair, in that, one of the player is Ferrer.

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