Monday, June 26, 2017

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

For the first time in his career, Jeevan earned a chance to make his Grand Slam debut but an ankle injury to his partner Hyeon Chung almost killed his dream.

However, American Jared Donaldson came as his saviour and agreed to play with the Indian left-hander at the most prestigious grass court tournament ... Rohan's connection really helped Jeevan to clinching Jared as partner.


At €636K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England

[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) bt (3) Ryan Harrison (USA)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 63 36 10-7

Impressive win by Jeevan with Matt Reid over current French open champions, Harrison and Venus ... After winning the first set Jeev and Matt lost the second set but they recovered for winning the match tie-break.

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

[R1] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) bt Rogerio Dutra Silva (BRA,68) 63 64

[R2] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,221) vs (1) Dominic Thiem (AUT,7)

Doubles
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Tuna Altuna (TUR)/ David Ferrer (ESP) 76(4) 62

RamK scored his best-ever ranking wise win over top-70 Dutra Silva in straight sets and book his match against #NextGen Dominic Thiem.

In the first round, RamK never gave chance to Rogerio of settling on the grass court ... He kept pressure for completing win in two sets.

Divij-Purav also started with a win over Ferrer-Altuna pairing.


At $15K Sri Lanka F1 Futures 2017, Colombo

[R1] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt Niki KALIYANDA POONACHA (IND,1093) 61 63
[R2] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,1067) 60 61
[QF] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt (5) Davide GALOPPINI (ITA,617) 63 62
[SF] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt (3) Fabrizio ORNAGO (ITA,581) 62 46 61

Men's Singles Final
(1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,367) bt (6) Alexander ZHURBIN (RUS,633) 63 62

Expected title win for Sumit and this will helped him to push his ranking inside top-350.

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