Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Tennis News

At $50K+H Pune Challenger 2017, Maharashtra

[R1] (LL) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,622) bt (WC) Aryan Goveas (IND,698) 63 64
[R1] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,150) bt Marc Polmans (AUS,322) 67(5) 76(5) 76(9)
[R1] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND,755) l Ante Pavic (CRO,313) 67(5) 67(4)
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,137) bt (Q) Kaichi Uchida (JPN,356) 62 75
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,328) bt Lucas Miedler (AUT,326) 76(1) 60

[R2] (LL) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,622) vs (1) Blaz Kavcic (SLO,102)
[R2] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,912) vs (8) Pedja Krstin (SRB,221)
[R2] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,150) vs Brydan Klein (GBR,292)
[R2] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,137) vs Ante Pavic (CRO,313)
[R2] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,352) vs (9) Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ,245)
[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,328) vs (2) Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP,127)

Sumit scored an excellent win over Miedler in the straight sets ... The first set was well contested, till 9th game both players hold their respective service games with an ease ... Sumit saved a couple of set points in the 10th game while serving to stay in the set, in next game he missed few break points on Miedler's serve ... But from the tie-break he dominated the proceedings, he won the tie-break losing a single point and then gave the bagel to Miedler in the second set.

VSP scored expected victory over Aryan with a single break in both sets ... Next, VSP and Sumit having tough matches as they r facing top 2 seeds in the second round.

Expected win by Yuki against Japanese qualifier ... After winning the first set Yuki lost focus in the second set and was 2-4 down ... But he staged an excellent comeback winning 5 games from next 6 games played, in that he broke Uchida twice, for completing the victory.

RamK scraped through in three hours match against in-form Australian Marc Polmans ... RamK was coming back on the court after almost a month and after five matches losing streak, so he was under a lot of pressure ... Marc didn't give him a chance to settle in the match ... Moreover, RamK also missed huge opportunities like he converted only 1 break point from 13 chances ... After losing the first set in the tie-break RamK dug deep for a winning the second set tie-break ... The third set also went to tie-break ... RamK was up 4-1 and 5-2 but wasted mini-break advantage ... He missed a match point at 6-5 and then faced three match points on 6-7, 7-8 and 8-9 ... He saved all those three match points and converted second match point for much-needed win.

Arjun played a really well match against big-serving Croatian, he lost in the two tie-breaks ... The difference was, Pavic served 18 aces in the match and both players failed to break other's service game in the match.


At $60K+H ITF Women's Tournament 2017, Toyota, Japan

[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Erika Sema (JPN) l Rika Fujiwara (JPN)/ Ayano Shimizu (JPN) 46 76(5) 4-10

Ankita's awful form continues ... She lost in the doubles with Sema in the match tie-break ... Hopefully, she will be giving better results in the singles.

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