Monday, July 17, 2017

Tennis News

At $600K Hall of Fame Open 2017, Newport, USA

[Q2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,168) l Matthew Ebden (AUS,249) 64 16 57

Doubles
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Hugo Nys (FRA) l Wesley Koolhof (NED)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) 57 64 3-10

After winning the first set, Ramk Was dominated by Matthew for winning it comfortably .. In the decider, Matthew broke him in 1st game but immediately got broken, 1-all< ... Matthew again broke him in 5th game, 2-3, but RamK broke him when he was serving for the match at 4-5 ... Matthew again broke RamK in 11th game and this time hold for completing the win ... RamK must be tired after continuously playing all over continents ... This was his 14th consecutive week on the tour without any break.

Jeevan-Nys lost in the match tie-break against Sitak-Koolhof.


At $226,750 BRD Bucharest Open 2017, Romania

[R1] Jessica Moore (AUS)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) bt Nicoleta Dascalu (ROU)/ Isabella Shinikova (BUL) 64 62

[QF] Jessica Moore (AUS)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs (1) Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/ Raluca Olaru (ROU)

Prarthana with Jessica started with comfortable straight sets win over Dascalu and Shinikova ... Next, they r having tough match against top-seed local pair.

At $75K Gatineau Challenger 2017, Canada

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,212) bt Tatsuma Ito (JPN,181) 63 62

Doubles
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) vs (2) Luke Bambridge (GBR)/ David O'Hare (IRL)

Yuki started with confident win over former WR #60 Tatsuma Ito in straight sets ... Yuki played really high p[ercentage tennis in this match ... He is playing in the doubles with Uchiyama and they r facing 2nd seed pair.

At $60K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Bursa, Turkey

[Q1] Kyra Shroff (IND,784) bt Inci Ogut (TUR,UNR) 64 62
[Q2] Kyra Shroff (IND,784) bt (7) Aleksandra Pospelova (RUS,647) 62 62
[Q3] Kyra Shroff (IND,784) bt (3) Melis Sezer (TUR,498)

[R1] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,274) bt Vanda Lukacs (HUN,404) 1-2 retd.
[R1] (Q) Kyra Shroff (IND,784) vs Ana Vrljic (CRO,461)

Ankita received lucky break as her opponent retired from the match after mere 3 games ... Other hand, Kyra qualified for the main-draw with couple of upset wins.

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