Thursday, July 06, 2017

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) l Julian Knowle (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) 64 64 26 67(2) 8-10
[R1] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Dustin Brown (GER)/ Mischa Zverev (GER) 63 76(4) 64

[R2] (8) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR)

Lee-Adil lost an epic match against Austrian Knowle-Oswald after winning the first 2 sets ... This match's duration was 4 hrs long, tough loss for Lee-Adil ... In the fifth set, our pair lost their serve in 17th game after saving 1 break point.

Rohan and Edouard started well and scored straight sets win against really good grass court German pair ... Next, they r facing Skupski brothers.


At $50K+H Recanati Challenger 2017, Italy

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,222) l (7) Salvatore Caruso (ITA,200) 76(5) 36 57

Missed opportunity for RamK despite fighting hard against some ridiculous calls from chair umpire ... After winning the first set in the tie-break, RamK lost the second ... In the third, RamK lost his serve in 1st game but he immediately broke Caruso for 1-all ... RamK broke Caruso in 6th game for leading 4-2 but failed to hold in next game ... Again he broke Caruso in 8th game for 5-3 but from here Caruso raised his game for winning next 4 games for the victory ... After 11th game RamK took medical break due to cramps but overall encouraging and consistent performance from RamK.



At $25K China F11 Futures 2017, Kunshan

[R2] (6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,429) bt (Q) Shi Hong ZENG (CHN,UNR) 63 61

[QF] (3) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,259) vs (6) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND,429)
[QF] Karunuday SINGH (IND,806) vs (2) Zhe LI (CHN,253)

Vishnu also joined Prajnesh and KU in the quarters with comfortable win ... Interesting match between Prajnesh and Vishnu.

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

[R1] (LL) Kanika VAIDYA (IND,1100) bt Angelina SHAKHRAYCHUK (UKR,NR) 46 64 61
[R1] (SE) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1054) bt (Q) Arlinda RUSHITI (SUI,1046) 62 63
[R1] Sri Vaishnavi PEDDI REDDY (IND,1004) l Verena HOFER (ITA,788) 61 26 57

[R2] (LL) Kanika VAIDYA (IND,1100) vs Vera ZVONAREVA (RUS,UNR)
[R2] (SE) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1054) vs (1) Jacqueline CABAJ AWAD (SWE,512)

Pranjala started with comfortable win against similar ranked Swiss girl ... Kanika also joined her in the second round after losing the first set ... In the second round, Kanika is facing former WR #2 Vera Zvonareva and Pranjala is facing top-seed Swede girl Cabaj Awad.

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