Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Tennis News

At $1M St. Petersburg Open 2017, Russia

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt James Cerretani (USA)/ Fabio Fognini (ITA) 63 64

[QF] Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (4) Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)

The winning start for Lee and Purav ... Next, they r facing 4th seed Demoliner and Daniell.

At $75K Columbus Challenger 2017, Ohio, USA

[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,157) l Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (DOM,341) 64 67(5) 0-2 retd.
[R1] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,154) bt Sekou Bangoura (USA,386) 76(7) 64

[R2] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,154) vs Filip Peliwo (CAN,267)

Doubles
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l (2) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) 57 57

RamK started with straight sets win over Bangoura ... In the first set, RamK had multiple chances for winning the set ... He was two times serving for the set at 5-4 and 6-5, but both time failed to hold ... In the tie-break, he had 2 set points at 6-4 but again failed to convert ... Bangoura committed double fault at 8-7 to help RamK for winning the set ... In the second set, both players exchanged early breaks ... RamK took crucial break in 9th game and this time hold his serve for completing the victory ... Next, he is facing Canadian Filip Peliwo.

In this match from the beginning Yuki struggled with his regular game and was making numerous unforced errors ... He broke Jose in 1st game but was under pressure on his serve ... He saved 7 break points and managed to win the first set with a single break advantage ... In the second set also Yuki broke Jose early to take a lead bu got broken in the 8th game, 4-all ... Yuki broke Jose in 11th game for 6-5 lead but failed to hold his serve while serving for the match ... In the tie-break, he was up 5-2 before losing next 5 points and lost the set ... Yuki got broken in the 1st game of the third set and he retired from the match due to hip injury when he was 0-2 down ... This time almost 12 months Yuki avoided any injury but once again he got injured ... Feeling sad and angry with his injury/ fitness issues as I feel he has got potential of top-75 but instead remains stuck around 125-225 range.

In the doubles, RamK-Prajnesh gave fighting performance against British pair in their straight sets loss.


At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Lubbock, Texas, USA

[R2] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,315) vs Alisa Kleybanova (RUS,628) 26 26

And former top-20 Kleybanova proved too strong to Karman as she managed to win only 4 games.

At $15K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Hua Hin, Thailand

[R2] Natasha Palha (IND,755) l (1) Julia Glushko (ISR,292) 26 26
[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,738) bt (Q) Jiaxue Zang (CHN,1121) 63 64
[R2] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,618) l (2) Jia-Qi Kang (CHN,346) 67(7) 67(4)

[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,738) vs Hua-Chen Lee (TPE,707)

Rutuja entered into the quarter with straight sets victory and facing Taipei's Hua-Chen Lee, last week Rutuja defeated Lee in the final in closely fought match.

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