Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Tennis News

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

[R1] (Q) Sumit Nagal (IND,223) l (Q) Ilya Ivashka (BLR,230) 36 36
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,116) bt (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND,603) 63 64

[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,116) vs (8) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA,81)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) 63 62

[QF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Gilles Simon (FRA)

As expected win for Yuki but Arjun won hearts with his game ... Really good service action, better net game and hit good groundies on both side flanks ... Yuki also was delight to watch and he was a better player on the court but Arjun gave fighting performance ... Next, he is facing 8th seed Frenchman Herbert ... But a disappointing straight sets loss of Sumit against fellow qualifier ... Sumit missed a big opportunity to go deep in this ATP tournament.

Again it showed if Jeevan finds regular good partner then he can be top-25 doubles player ... A dominating win with Rohan by Jeevan over Leander and Purav ... Jeevan played superb tennis and Rohan complemented his game ... Purav struggled with his game and Lee looked a bit slow near net ... Next, they r facing French pair.


At $250K ASB WTA Classic 2018, Auckland, New Zealand

[R1] Magdalena Frech (POL)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) bt Mona Barthel (GER)/ Donna Vekic (CRO) 57 63 10-8.

Prarthana started her 2018 season with a win on the tour with her Polish partner ... They scored a comeback win over their German-Croatian opponents.

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