Sunday, October 29, 2017

Tennis News

At €2M Erste Bank Open 500 2017, Vienna, Austria

Courtesy of AtpWorldTour.com
Doubles Final
Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) bt Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Sam Querrey (USA) 76(7) 67(4) 11-9

Rohan and Pablo lifted the Vienna open title after saving 2 match points against Demoliner and Querrey ... In this match, both pairs failed to break other's service game ... Rohan-Pablo had 3 break points in the second set but they failed to convert and lost this set in the tie-break ... In the match tie-break, both pairs were exchanging leads and Demoliner-Querrey had 2 match points at 7-9 ... But Rohan-Pablo raised their game and won next 4 points for winning the title.

At €4.2M Rolex Paris Masters 2017, France

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) vs Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL)

In Paris Masters, Rohan-Pablo r facing Colombian pair.

At $125K+H Brest Challenger 2017, France

Doubles Final
Scott Clayton (GBR)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Sander Arends (NED)/ Antonio Sancic (CRO) 46 57

Divij-Scott lost in the straight sets against Sancic and big serving Arends.

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

Courtesy Saketh's FB page
Doubles Final
Saketh Myneni (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Ben McLachlan (JPN)/ Go Soeda (JPN) 76(3) 76(5)

Saki and VSP lifted the title beating Japanese pair in the two tie-breaks ... This was a really good week for Saki, as he is coming out of the injury and didn't have good results in the singles or the doubles before this tournament ... So hopefully this title win will help him to give required boost performing better in the singles.

At $75K Shenzhen 2 Challenger 2017, China

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,229) vs Qualifier

Doubles
[QF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR)
[R1] (2) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) vs Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND)

Prajnesh is facing a qualifier ... In the doubles, again Jeevan-Chris r top-seed and they r facing Ghedin and Shyla ... Vishnu-Bala r unseeded and facing 2nd seed Taipei pair.

At $75K Canberra Challenger, Australia

[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,396) vs (7) John Millman (AUS,218)

A tough match for Sasi against in-form Millman.

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