Monday, January 22, 2018

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2018, Melbourne

Doubles
[R3] (16) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l (1) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA) 63 67(4) 46
[R3] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) l (7) Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) 46 76(5) 36

Our both players lost in close matches and with that our challenge got over in the men's doubles ... Divij-Ram started positively winning the first set ... In the second, Sharan got broken in the 3rd game, 1-2, but our pair immediately broke back for 2-all ... In the tie-break, Rajeev-Divij were up mini-break 3-1, but lost the tie-break as managed to win only a single point from next seven points ... After that top-seed kept control for winning the third set.

Rohan-Edouard tried fightback after losing the first set, but failed to keep momentum in the thirs.


At $15K China F3 Futures 2018, Anning (Clay)

[Q1] (4) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND) bye
[Q2] (4) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND) bt Yong Jia Cai (CHN) 63 61
[Q3] (4) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND) bt Sheng Tang (CHN) 75 46 62

[R1] Manish Sureshkumar (IND,1033) bt Bruno Mardones (ESP,1160) 62 63
[R1] (Q) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1444) vs (WC) Ruixuan Wang (CHN,1522)
[R1] (5) Arjun Kadhe (IND,610) vs (Q) Alberto Lim (PHI,1373)

Third continuous week, Nitin qualified for the main-draw ... Manish started with a good win over his Spanish opponent on the clay ... Arjun and Nitin having winnable first round matches.

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