Saturday, December 30, 2017

Tennis News

At $561K Tata Open Maharashtra 2018, Pune, India

[Q1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,374) l (1) Thiago Monterio (BRA,124) 63 36 57
[Q1] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,243) bt (ALT) Jayesh Pungliya (IND,1009) 64 61
[Q1] (WC) Shahbaz Khan (IND,1377) l (2) Adrian Menendez-Mceiras (ESP,127) 26 06
[Q1] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND,223) bt (WC) Divij Sharan (IND,UNR) 62 63
[Q1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,426) l (5) Richardo Ojera Lara (ESP,198) 26 16
[Q1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,511) l (4) Carlos Taberner (ESP,185) 75 26 67(3)

[Q2] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,243) vs (1) Thiago Monterio (BRA,124)
[Q2] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND,223) vs (2) Adrian Menendez-Mceiras (ESP,127)

[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,148) vs Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP,106)
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,116) vs (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND,603)

Doubles
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Laslo Djere (SRB)/ Blaz Kavcic (SLO)
[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND)
[R1] (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Adil Shamasdin (CAN)/ Neal Skupski (GBR)
[R1] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Benoit Paire (FRA) vs (2) Robin Haase (NED)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED)

Arjun is unlucky in the draw as he is facing Yuki in the singles and in the doubles, he is facing 2nd seed Dutch pair with Paire ... RamK is facing Spanish Carballes Baena and winner will be faced top-seed Cilic.

In the doubles, another cruel draw for Indians as Lee and Purav r facing last year's Chennai open champions Rohan and Jeevan ... Divij is playing with Yuki and they r facing Djere-Kavcic ... Bala and Vishnu start their year against Skupski and Shamasdin.

In the qualifying, only expected wins for Indians as Sumit and Prajnesh won their respective matches against Indian opponents easily ... Sumit will be facing top-130 Spanish Menendez-Mceiras for place in the main draw ... Prajnesh is facing top-125 Brazilian Monterio.


At $50K+H Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[Q1] Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,526) l (5) Dominik Koepfer (GER,305) 76(7) 26 16
[Q1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) bt (WC) Chaleechan Tanasugarn (THA,UNR) 62 60

[Q2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) vs (5) Dominik Koepfer (GER,305)

Sid and VSP r playing in Bangkok ... Mixed results for them, as VSP lost after winning the first set against his German opponent and Sid scored expected easy win against local unranked player ... Next, Sid is facing German Koepfer.

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