Sunday, July 30, 2017

Tennis News

At $2M Citi Open 2017, Washington, USA

[Q2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,178) bt Marinko Matosevic (AUS,401) 75 63
[Q2] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,201) bt Liam Broady (GBR,357) 62 64

[R1] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,182) vs Guido Pella (ARG,97)
[R1] (Q) Yuki Bhambri (IND,200) vs Stefan Kozlov (USA,132)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Donald Young (USA) vs Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)

Yuki qualified for the main-draw with straight sets win over Britisher Liam Broady ... In the first set, Yuki broke Liam in 3rd and 7th games for winning it comfortably ... In the second set, Yuki broke Liam in 1st game for a 2-0 lead and kept that advantage for winning the set and match ... Yuki is facing young American Stefan Kozlov in the first round.

RamK also qualified for the main-draw and in this match RamK's serve were too good as he served 13 aces ... RamK took an early break for leading 4-2 but Marinko broke him in the 7th game, 4-3 ... RamK broke Marinko in the 12th game when he was serving to stay in the set ... In the second set, RamK broke Marinko in 4th game to lead 4-1 ... RamK had couple of match points on Marinko's serve in 8th game but he failed to convert ... But he hold his serve in next game for straight sets victory ... RamK is facing Argentine clay courter Guido Pella.

In the doubles, Rohan is participating with Donald Young.


At $728K Abierto Mexicano de Tenis Mifel presentado por Cinemex 2017, Los Cabos, Mexico

[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)
[R1] Blaz Kavcic (SLO)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs (WC) Hans Hach Verdugo (MEX)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX)

Divij-Purav having a tough match against Gonzalez-Lipsky, their last match went to the match tie-break ... This week, Jeevan is playing with Blaz Kavcic and they r facing local wild-card pair in the first round.

At $125K Chengdu Challenger 2017, China

[Q3] (6) Sidharth Rawat (IND,574) bt Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE,UNR) 64 63
[Q3] (2) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,419) l (5) Kento Takeuchi (JPN,472) 26 46
[Q3] (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,424) l (7) Yunseong Chung (KOR,613) 46 36

[R1] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,574) vs Sam Barry (IRL,393)

Doubles
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Yusuke Takahashi (JPN)/ Kento Takeuchi (JPN)

Disappointing losses of Vishnu and Sasi ... Sid qualified for the main-draw and facing Irishman Sam Barry ... In the doubles, Bala-Vishnu r 2nd seed and facing Japanese pair in the first round.

At $25K+H Italy F23 Futures 2017, Pontedara

Singles Final
(2) Sumit Nagal (IND,305) bt Andrea Basso (ITA,502) 64 64

Sumit lifted his 3rd futures title of the year and overall 8th futures title ... With this first $25K+H futures title, he will move inside top 275 in the rankings ... From the start this final match was close ... In the first set, Sumit took a crucial break in the 10th game when Andrea was serving for staying in the set ... In the second set, Sumit broke Andrea in 6th game for lead 4-2 and he had 3 match points on Andrea's serve at 5-2 ... Sumit failed to convert them and then he lost his serve while serving for the match at 5-3 ... Sumit again had 2 match points on Andrea's serve in 10th game which he saved but Sumit converted his 6th match point for lifting the title.

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