Sunday, December 31, 2017

Tennis News

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

[Q2] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,243) l (1) Thiago Monterio (BRA,124) 57 57
[Q2] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND,223) bt (2) Adrian Menendez-Mceiras (ESP,127) 62 36 64

[R1] (Q) Sumit Nagal (IND,223) vs (Q) Ilya Ivashka (BLR,230)

Sumit qualifies for his first ATP main draw with an upset win over top-130 Spanish Menendez-Mceiras ... In their last three meetings Menendez-Mceiras defeated Sumit but this time Sumit managed to turn table on him ... Sumit started confidently and won the first set comfortably but Menendez-Mceiras made comeback in the match winning the second set ... In the decider, Menendez-Mceiras broke Sumit early and was leading 1-3 ... Sumit made an amazing comeback in the match from 1-3 and 15-40 down ... Sumit hold his serve and broke Menendez-Mceiras in 6th game for 3-all ... Sumit saved another break point in the 9th game and then after medical break broke Menendez-Mceiras for memorable victory ... In luck of the draw, Sumit is facing another qualifier Ilya Ivashka in the main draw ... Other hand Prajnesh stretched Monterio in both sets but failed to overcome.

At $50K+H Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[Q2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) l (5) Dominik Koepfer (GER,305) 46 46

Sid lost in the straight sets against Koepfer.

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