Friday, July 14, 2017

Tennis News

At $75K Winnetka Challenger 2017, USA

[SF] (5) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,184) bt Tommy Paul (USA,355) 46 63 62

[F] (5) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,184) vs Akira Santillan (JPN,197)

RamK again showed his new found desire of keep fighting and winning these matches ... In the semis, he got broken in the first game for losing the first set ... From the middle of second set, he made tactical changes in his game plan and countered Paul's tactics ... He won the second set with a break and then started dominatingly in the third ... He broke Paul in 1st and 3rd games to lead 4-0 and kept that advantage for entering into the final ... In the final, RamK is facing young Japanese challenge of Akira Santillan.

At $50K Bastad Challenger 2017, Sweden

[SF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt (3) Sergio Galdos (PER)/ Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 36 64 10-1

[F] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs Tuna Altuna (TUR)/ Vaclav Safranek (CZE)

Bala-VSP scored dominating comeback win after losing the first set ... They won the match tie-break losing only single point ... In the final, they r facing unseeded pairing of Altuna and Safranek.

At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Naiman, China

[QF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,405) bt (2) Fangzhou Liu (CHN,134) 64 76(4)

[SF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,405) vs (5) Xinyu Gao (CHN,210)

Karman scored her first win over top-150 player ... She defeated Fangzhou Liu in straight sets ... In this match Karman's serving was really good and she fired an aces in crucial moments ... In the tie-break, she took 6-1 lead before converting 4th match point ... Next, she is facing in-form Chinese girl Xinyu Gao.

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