Sunday, July 02, 2017

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

[R1] (13) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)/ Sania Mirza (IND) vs Naomi Osaka (JPN)/ Shuai Zhang (CHN)
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT)
[R1] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Dustin Brown (GER)/ Mischa Zverev (GER)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Kyle Edmund (GBR)/ Joao Sousa (POR)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Jarred Donaldson (USA) vs (WC) Jay Clarke (GBR)/ Marcus Willis (GBR)

On peper, Rohan-Edouard having tricky match against German pair ... Our other pairs should start with a win, including Jeevan for his first grand slam win.

Yaroslava Shvedova went under the knife so Sania has been struggling to find right partner ... She has decided to partner Belgian Kirsten Flipkens, but she is also struggling with shoulder injury.


At $50K+H Recanati Challenger 2017, Italy

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) vs Alexander Kudryavtsev (RUS,281)

Doubles
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Aldin Setkic (BIH) vs (3) Marin Draganja (CRO)/ Tomislav Draganja (CRO)

RamK is kept playing week after week ... This week, he is in Italy.

At $25K China F10 Futures 2017, Kunshan

[SF] (2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) bt Martins PODZUS (LAT,792) 63 63

Singles Final
(2) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,256) bt (1) Zhe LI (CHN,251) 63 61

Prajnesh wins the $25K futures title in Kunshan,China winning all his matches in straight sets ... In the fina, he defeated the Chinese top seed Zhe Li in straight sets. This is his 7th futures title, 3rd of this year but 1st in $25K tournament.

At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[R1] Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1041) bt (WC) Natascha KENNIS (NED,NR) 60 62
[R2] Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1041) bt (8) Francesca SELLA (ITA,910) 62 60
[QF] Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1041) bt (1) Tereza MIHALIKOVA (SVK,523) 63 76(3)
[SF] Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1041) bt (4) Ekaterina YASHINA (RUS,650) 64 64

Women's Singles Final
Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1041) bt Giada CLERICI (ITA,UNR) 67(0) 75 64

Pranjala claimed her maiden ITF women's title in the topsy-turvy match against another unseeded player, Italian girl Giada Clerici ... In the first set, Pranjala was a double break up at 4-0 and then up 6-5 but she failed to close the set and lost the tie-break without winning a single point ... In the second set also she was 5-3 break up and serving for the set ... Clerici broke her in 9th game but Pranjala broke her in 12th game for taking the match into decider ... In the final set, Pranjala was trailing 1-4 but from here she made excellent comeback ... Pranjala won next 5 games losing mere 8 points and broke Clerici 3 times for superb win.

Before that, Pranjala had showed terrific consistency in her game as she defeated 2015 junior Austrian open champion Tereza Mihalikova in the quarters and then Russian girl Yashina in the semis.


At $15K Sri Lanka F2 Futures 2017, Colombo

[R1] 1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,369) bt S D Prajwal DEV (IND,1648) 63 60
[R2] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,369) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND,990) 61 67(5) 61
[QF] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,369) bt (8) Alexander ZHURBIN (RUS,638) 61 63

[SF] (1) Sumit NAGAL (IND,369) l (3) Carlos BOLUDA-PURKISS (ESP,560) 36 03 retd.

I hope nothing scary injury fear for Sumit as beginning of the year he was 5 months out of his shoulder injury ... Here, he was 3-1 in the semis but afterwards lost 8 games in a row before retiring.

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