Thursday, June 29, 2017

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

Women's Doubles - (13) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)/ Sania Mirza (IND)
Men's Doubles - (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA)

I didn't know that Sania has changed partner and participating with Kirsten Flipkens ... They r lowly 13th seed, but Rohan with Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin r 8th seed ... Flipkens has a shoulder injury so still not sure about her partcipation in big W ...

At €636K Aegon International 2017, Eastbourne, England

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) bt (ALT) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Luke Saville (AUS) 63 64

[QF] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) l Robin Haase (NED)/ Dominic Inglot (ENG) 67(3) 16
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) bt Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Max Mirnyi (BLR) 62 67(2) 10-3

[SF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Andre Sa (BRA) vs Robin Haase (NED)/ Dominic Inglot (ENG)

Rohan and Andre scored back to back victories for entering into the semis ... Next, they r facing Haase-Inglot, who defeated Jeevan and his partner Matt Reid in the quarters.

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

[QF] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) l Marcos Baghdatis (CYP,79) 76(0) 36 67(6)

Doubles
[SF] (4) Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) l (2) Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) 46 46

Terrific fighting perfromance by RamK in this loss ... After winning the first set in the tie-break, RamK lost the second set with doubles break ... But RamK recovered in the third to take the set in the tie-break ... There RamK was down five match points, 1-6, he saved all those 5 match points for 6-all but lost next 2 for losing this match.

Lee-Adil failed to challenge 2nd seed Marach-Pavic and lost in the straight sets.


At $25K China F10 Futures 2017, Kunshan

[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,814) bt Xi QI (CHN,1319) 62 62
[R1] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) bt (WC) Runhao HUA (CHN,UNR) 60 76(3)

[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,814) bt (7) Rigele TE (CHN,634) 75 64
[R2] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) bt Tianjia GUO (CHN,NR) 60 63

[QF] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) vs Karunuday SINGH (IND,814)

KU scored excellent win over 7th seed local player Te and facing Prajnesh in the quarters.

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