Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Tennis News

At $125K+H Brest Challenger 2017, France

[R1] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Mathias Bourgue (FRA)/ Ugo Humbert (FRA) 62 64

[QF] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Tristan Lamasine (FRA)/ Hugo Nys (FRA)

Lee and Purav started with a comfortable win over local wildcard pair ... Next, they r facing another French wildcard pair, but this can be a tough one as Nys is currently on #90 and Lamasine was top-70 in 2016.

At $50K+H Ho Chi Minh City Challenger 2017, Vietnam

[R1] Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,549) l (1) Taylor Fritz (USA,109) 26 46
[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,142) bt Jose Statham (NZL,308) 61 64
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,313) l (2) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS,101) 16 76(5) 46

[R2] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,142) vs Ti Chen (TPE,325)

Doubles
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt (4) Peter Polansky (CAN)/ Akira Santillan (AUS) 67(4) 62 10-8

[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs Alessandro Bega (ITA)/ Stephane Robert (FRA)

Yuki started with the straight sets victory over Statham ... In this match, Yuki struggled with his service game but that didn't affected outcome of the match ... Next, he is facing veteran Ti Chen.

Sumit gave fighting perfromance against former top-10 Russian player, Mikhail Youzhny ... After losing the first set easily Sumit dig deep and fought back to won it in the tie-break ... Youzhny used his vast experience to clinch the final set with a break advantage ... VSP also gave decent performance against top-seed Fritz.

Good to see Saki is winning the match ... With VSP, they scored a comeback win over 4th seed Santillan and Polansky ... Next, they r facing Bega and experienced Frenchman Stephane Robert.


At $75K Suzhou Challenger 2017, China

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,499) l (3) Radu Albot (MDA,113) 16 16
[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,352) l (2) Blax Kavcic (SLO,107) 26 46

Bala and Vishnu lost in the straight sets against their respective top-115 ranked opponents.

At $75K Traralgon Challenger, Australia

[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,422) l Alex Bolt (AUS,279) 75 57 46

Sasi gave fighting performance in his loss against top-300 Aussie player ... Sasi broke Alex in 12th game for winning the first set ... In the second set, Bolt broke early to take a lead but Sasi broke back to be on serve ... Bolt took crucial break in 11th game and then hold his service game for winning this set ... In the third set also, Sasi matched Bolt but one break advantage was enough for Bolt for winning the set and match.

At $60K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Liuzhou, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,279) l Olesya Pervushina (RUS,549) 46 16

Ankita's struggle continued as she lost in the straight sets against former Junior WR #1 Pervushina.

At $15K Malaysia F2 Futures 2017, Kuching

[R1] (Q) Dalwinder Singh (IND,1053) l (1) Scott Griekspoor (NED,542) 36 26

Dalwinder lost in the straight sets against Griekspoor.

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