Thursday, June 08, 2017

Tennis News

At Roland Garros 2017, Paris, France

Courtesy of French Open site
Mixed Doubles Final
(7) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Robert Farah (COL) 26 62 12-10

Juniors
[R2] Zeel Desai (IND)/ Fernanda Labrana (CHI) l Ayumi Miyamoto (JPN)/ Xiyu Wang (CHN) 57 26

Rohan and Gabriela Dabrowski have each lifted their maiden Grand Slam trophy having won the Roland-Garros mixed doubles title ... Rohan-Gabriela gained revenge for a US Open quarter-finals loss at the hands of their French Open final opponents ... In this match, they turned the table on their opponent after a set and a break down ... In the match tie-break, they were two championship points down, 7-9 ... They saved those and converted their 2nd match point when Anna-Lena committed a double fault.

Other hand with Zeel's loss in the doubles our interest got over in this French open.


At $150K+H Prostejov Challenger 2017, Czech Republic (Red clay)

[SF] (1) David Marrero (ESP)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (3) Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Hans Podlipink-Castillo (CHI) 36 46

Lee-David lost in straight sets against Jebavy and Podlipink-Castillo.

At $150K Surbiton Challenger 2017, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,245) bt Duckhee Lee (KOR,131) 63 61

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,245) l (5) Dustin Brown (GER,76) 67(6) 62 57

Yuki started with a very dominating win over top-150 ranked Korean Duckhee Lee .... In the second match, Yuki faced grass court specialist Dustin Brown ... Dustin struggled with his overall game but he was serving well ... In the first set, Yuki had a set point in the tie-break which he failed to convert ... In the second set, Yuki took early break and then again broke Dustin in 8th game for winning it comfortably ... In the final set, both players hold their respective service games till 10th game ... In 11th game, Yuki hit couple of wayward shots and gave 3 break points, 0-40 ... Yuki saved those but on 6th break point of the game Dustin broke him and then hold his serve for a win.

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

[QF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) bt (3) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB,193) 76(5) 63

[SF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) vs (2) Polina Monova (RUS,181)

Karman scored straights sets win over top-200 and local favorite Abduraimova ... This was her first win over top-200 player and that's also in some style ... Next, she is facing another top-200 Russian player.

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