Thursday, November 09, 2017

Tennis News

At $100K ITF Women's Tournament 2017, Shenzhen, China

[QF] Anastasia Gasanova (RUS)/ Ankita Raina (IND) l (2) Jacqueline Cako (USA)/ Nina Stojanovic (SRB) 26 57

Ankita and Gasanova lost in the straight sets against 2nd seed Cako-Stojanovic.

At $75K Knoxville Challenger 2017, USA

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Liam Broady (GBR)/ Marcus Willis (GBR) 60 75

[SF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Ruan Roelofse (RSA)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR)

Another good win by Lee-Purav against big serving British pair ... Next, they r facing 3rd seed pair Roelofse-Salisbury.

At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Pune, India

[QF] (3) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,310) bt (6) Ana Veselinovic (MNE,439) 62 75
[QF] (WC) Zeel Desai (IND,781) bt (4) Valeriya Strakhova (UKR,355) 63 62

[SF] (3) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,310) vs Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (THA,678)
[SF] (WC) Zeel Desai (IND,781) vs (2) Jaqueline Adina Cristian (ROU,254)

Good to see, our players r taking advantage of the home tournament ... A really good dominating win by Zeel against top-350 type Ukrainian opponent, Strakhova, in the straight sets ... Next, she is having a tough match against in-form Romanian Jaqueline Adina Cristian.

Karman also scored the straight sets win over Veselinovic ... After winning the first set easily Karman was 4-1 up in the second ... Veselinovic broke her in 7th game but Karman broke her in 12th game when Veselinovic was serving for staying in the match, Next, she is facing Thai girl, Bunyawi Thamchaiwat.

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