Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Tennis News

At US Open 2017, New York, USA

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (7) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l (3) Hao-Ching Chan (TPE)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 64 36 8-10

Junior
[R1] Zeel Desai (IND,24) l Maria Camila Osorio Serrano (COL,18) 46 76(5) 36
[R1] Mihika Yadav (IND,39) l (WC) Nikki Redelijk (USA,783) 46 64 16
[R1] Mahak Jain (IND,31) l (6) Xin Yu Wang (CHN,10) 36 76(5) 16

[R1] Siddhant Banthia (IND)/ Shinji Hazawa (JPN) bt Lukas Greif (USA)/ Govind Nanda (USA) 36 63 11-9

[R2] Siddhant Banthia (IND)/ Shinji Hazawa (JPN) vs Jesper De Jong (NED)/ Ryan Nijboer (NED)

In the MXD, Rohan-Gabriela lost in the match tie-break after winning the first set.

Mahak gave fighting performance against top-10 Chinese girl ... After losing the first set Mahak was a break up but Wang broke back and again broke Mahak in 11th game ... Mahak broke Wang when she was serving for the match and then took the tie-break for taking this match into the third ... But from 1-all Wang dominated the set winning last 5 games (though Mahak stretched Wang in the final game and saved a couple of match points) ... Other hand disappointing loss for Mihika against 15 yrs old American Redelijk in three sets.

And Zeel also lost in three sets, so with that, the singles challenge got over in the juniors ... After losing the first set Zeel won the second set in the tie-break but failed to keep momentum in the third.


At $50K+H Zhangjiagang Challenger 2017, China

[Q3] (5) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,471) l (4) Bradley Mousley (AUS,460) 57 64 26

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,406) l Ze Zhang (CHN,285) 16 16

Doubles
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Ze Zhang (CHN)
[R1] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN) vs (WC) Fajing Sun (CHN)/ Chuhan Wang (CHN)

Vishnu failed to challenge Zhang ... Before that, VSP failed to qualify for the main-draw as he lost in three sets against Mousley.

In the doubles, VSP is playing with Jeevan and they r facing Moriya and Zhang ... Vishnu is playing with Matsui and they r 2nd seed, facing local wildcard pair.

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...