Sunday, January 21, 2018

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2018, Melbourne

[R3] Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (11) Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL) 16 26

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (5) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (WC) Ellen Perez (AUS)/ Andrew Whittington (AUS) 62 64

[R2] (5) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Vania King (USA)/ Franko Skugor (CRO)

Juniors
[R1] (Q) Akanksha A Bhan (IND,116) l (6) Joanna Garland (TPE,17) 67(2) 06
[R1] Siddhant Banthia (IND,41) l (5) Hugo Gaston (FRA,5) 26 06

[R1] Akanksha A Bhan (IND)/ Sakura Hosogi (JPN) l (2) Simona Waltert (SUI)/ Xiyu Wang (CHN) 16 67(2)
[R1] Siddhant Banthia (IND)/ Christian Didier Chin (MAS) bt Adrian Andreev (BUL)/ Lodewijk Weststrate (NED) 61 76(5)

[R2] Siddhant Banthia (IND)/ Christian Didier Chin (MAS) vs (2) Sebastian Korda (USA)/ Nicolas Mejia (COL)

I sympathizes with Lee and Purav in their one-sided loss against Colombian pair ... Yesterday, they played high quality and high tempo match, beating defending champions in almost 3 hours match ... But due to cruel scheduling they needed to play their next match within 24 hrs ... On the court they were looking tired and sluggish, they played good tennis in patches ... And that wasn't enough against Colombians, who dominated the match from the start and won both sets with a double breaks.

Expected easy victory for Rohan and Timea Babos against local wild-card pair ... Next, they r facing Vania King and Franko Skugor.

Expected one-sided loss for Siddhant against junior WR #5 Gaston ... But in the doubles, he started with a win partnering Malaysian Chin .. In the doubles second round, they r having a tough match against the 2nd seeds.

Akanksha tried hard in the first set, she was up break, 4-2 ... But afterwards Joanna took control and won it in the straight sets ... In the doubles, Akanksha with Hosogi lost against the 2nd seeds pair.

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