Friday, January 26, 2018

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2018, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (5) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt María José Martínez Sánchez (ESP)/ Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) 75 57 10-6

[F] (5) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (8) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)

Rohan is in the another mixed doubles grand slam final with Hungarian Timea Babos ... In the semis, they defeated Sánchez and Demoliner in the tight match ... After winning the first set Rohan and Timea lost the second but they recovered to win the match tie-break comfortably ... In the final, they r facing 8th seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and Mate Pavic.

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

[SF] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ James Cerretani (USA) bt (4) Marcelo Arevalo (ESA)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) 63 63

[F] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ James Cerretani (USA) vs Treat Huey (PHI)/ Denis Kudla (USA)

Lee-Cerretani in the final with a comfortable win over the 4th seeds ... In the final, they r facing Huey and Kudla for the title.

At $75K+H Rennes Challenger 2018, France

[SF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (2) Sander Arends (NED)/ Antonio Sancic (CRO) 46 46

Bala and Vishnu lost in the straight sets against the 2nd seed pair.

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

[SF] Manish Sureshkumar (IND,1033) l (7) Kuan-Yi Lee (TPE,639) 16 36

P.C. to Hemant Bendrey Tennis Academy FB page
Doubles Final
(1) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) bt (3) Florent Diep (FRA)/ Goran Markovic (SRB) 63 76(4)

[SF] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) bt Tyler Lu (USA)/ Issei Okamura (JPN) 62 26 10-6
[QF] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND)/ Manish Sureshkumar (IND) 75 76(5)
[R1] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) bt Yu Hsiang Chiu (TPE)/ Yuanfeng Li (CHN) 62 63

Manish's terrific run ended against Lee with one-sided loss in the semis.

In the doubles, Arjun lifted his first title of 2018 season partnering Lakshit Sood ... In the final, they defeated the 3rd seed French-Serbian pair in the straight sets.

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