Sunday, January 28, 2018

Tennis News

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

P.C. to Oracle Challenger Series FB page
Doubles Final
(2) Leander Paes (IND)/ James Cerretani (USA) bt Treat Huey (PHI)/ Denis Kudla (USA) 64 75

Lee lifted his first title of 2018 season, with James Cerretani, that's also on the challenger tour ... Salute to Lee's motivation for playing and winning the challenger at 45 ... They defeated Treat Huey and Danis Kudla in the straight sets ... More importantly, this win gives him 125 ranking points.

At $226K Taiwan Open 2018, Taipei City, Chinese Taipei

[Q1] (12) Ankita Raina (IND,259) bt Cornelia Lister (SWE,422) 62 60

[Q2] (12) Ankita Raina (IND,259) l (2) Anna Blinkova (RUS,160) 36 46

Ankita lost against 2015 junior Wimbledon finalist, Russian Anna Blinkova, after giving a decent fight in the final qualifying ... Before that, she scored her first win of 2018 season, as she comfortably defeated Lister in Taiwan Open qualifying.

At $75K Burnie Challenger 2018, Australia

[Q1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,524) bt (7) Sekou Bangoura (USA,444) 36 64 63
[Q2] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,524) bt Takuto Niki (JPN,501) 64 63

[Q3] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,524) l Gianni Mina (FRA,556) 26 46

Doubles
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Dane Propoggia (AUS) vs (WC) Andrew Harris (AUS)/ Luke Saville (AUS)

Vijay is playing in the Australian challenger ... He lost in the final qualifying round against Frenchman Gianni in the straight sets ... Before that, he scored back to back wins over higher ranked opponents.

In the doubles, VSP is playing with Aussie Dane Propoggia and facing a tough challenge of top-150 doubles player, Luke Saville and his partner.

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