Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2018, Melbourne

[QF] (5) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt Abigail Spears (USA)/ Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL) 64 76(5)

Rohan and Timea r in the semis with a straight sets win over Spears and Cabal.

At $150K+H Newport Beach Challenger 2018, USA

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt (WC) Hunter Reese (USA)/ Raymond Sarmiento (USA) 36 63 10-5
[R1] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ James Cerretani (USA) bt Ariel Behar (URU)/ Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) 75 63

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs (3) (3) Scott Lipsky (USA)/ David Marrero (ESP)
[QF] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ James Cerretani (USA) vs Michael Mmoh (USA)/ Frances Tiafoe (USA)

This week, Lee is playing Cerretani and started with comfortable straight sets win ... Next, facing experienced American pair of Mmoh and Tiafoe ... Jeevan-Chris scored a comeback win in the match tie-break against wild-card pair ... Next, they r playing the 3rd seed pair of Lipsky and Marrero.

At $75K+H Rennes Challenger 2018, France

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (WC) Manuel Guinard (FRA)/ Maxime Janvier (FRA) 62 46 10-6
[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (3) Romain Arneodo (MON)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 36 76(4) 10-7

Vishnu-Bala r in the semis with the first 2 wins of year ... In the both matches, they won in the match tie-break ... In the quarters, after losing the first set they made a comeback to win in the tie-break against the 3rd seeds.

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

[R2] (Q) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1444) bt (Q) Huixin Wang (CHN,1543) 62 63
[R2] Manish Sureshkumar (IND,1033) bt (4) Steven Diez (CAN,312) 61 64
[R2] (6) Arjun Kadhe (IND,610) bt (Q) Rhett Purcell (NZL,1162) 64 67(5) 61

[QF] (Q) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1444) vs (7) Kuan-Yi Lee (TPE,639)
[QF] (6) Arjun Kadhe (IND,610) vs Manish Sureshkumar (IND,1033)

An excellent upset win by young Manish against an experienced top-300 type Diez ... Nitin also in the quarters with a straight sets win over Wang ... Manish will be faced Arjun, who needed three sets against Purcell.

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