Sunday, October 15, 2017

Tennis News

At $746K VTB Kremlin Cup 2017, Moscow, Russia

[Q2] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,152) bt (5) Alexei Vatutin (RUS,183) 75 64

[R1] (Q) Yuki Bhambri (IND,152) vs (WC) Roman Safiullin (RUS,451)

Yuki qualified for the main draw with the straight sets win and facing local wild card player, Roman Safiullin, in the first round ... Roman also was a Junior Australian Open champion in 2015.

In this match, Yuki was early break down, 1-4, he fought back and took crucial break in 11th game and then hold for winning the set ... In the second set, Yuki was early break up, 4-2, but Vatutin broke him in the 8th game, 4-all ... Yuki immediately broke back Vatutin in next game, 5-4, and then hold to complete the victory.


At $226K BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open 2017, Luxembourg

[R1] Alexandra Cadantu (ROU)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs Veronica Cepede Royg (PAR)/ Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA)

This week Prarthana is partnering Romanian Alexandra Cadantu and they r facing South American pair in the first round.

At €589K European Open 2017, Antwerp, Belgium

[Q1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,148) l (6) Sebastian Ofner (AUT,141) 57 46

In their last three meetings RamK defeated Ofner but here he failed to repeat that and lost in the straight sets ... So with that RamK's losing strak continues as this was his 5th loss in the row.

At $125K Ningbo Challenger 2017, China

[Q2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,529) l (2) Yang Tsung Hua (TPE,302) 36 76(4) 26
[Q2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,492) bt (5) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,403) 64 64

[Q3] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,492) vs Yunseong Chung (KOR,582)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN)/ Go Soeda (JPN)
[R1] Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Taro Daniel (JPN)/ Tatsuma Ito (JPN)
[R1] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN) vs Sadio Doumbia (FRA)/ Calvin Hemery (FRA)

Vishnu scored comfortable win over Sasi for entering in to the final qualifying ... He will be facing young Korean Yunseong Chung ... Sid lost in three sets against top-300 Yang Tsung Hua.

This week Jeevan and Vishnu r back with their respective successful partners and both pairs r top 2 seeds.


At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka

[R2] Prerna Bhambri (IND,954) bt Zeel Desai (IND,822) 76(3) 63
[R2] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,1049) bt (5) Andrea Ka (CAM,627) 46 63 10-4

[QF] (4) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,619) vs Yexin Ma (CHN,1126)
[QF] (Q) Rishika Sunkara (IND,1049) vs Isabelle Boulais (CAN,1018)
[QF] Prerna Bhambri(IND,954) vs (6) Tamara Curovic (SRB,644)

Prerna and Rishika scored upset win over their higher ranked opponents and joined Rutuja in the quarters ... Rishika scored superb comeback win over Andrea Ka but Zeel's struggled continues.

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