Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Tennis News

At $561K Tata Open Maharashtra 2018, Pune, India

[R2] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,148) l (1) Marin Cilic (CRO,6) 46 36
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,116) l (8) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA,81) 64 36 46

Doubles
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Laslo Djere (SRB)/ Blaz Kavcic (SLO) 62 62

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (1) Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Franko Skugor (CRO)

RamK gave spirited performance against WR #6 Cilic in his straight sets loss ... In the first set, Cilic broke RamK in the 8th game and was serving for the set ... RamK put pressure on Cilic's serve and with the help of Cilic's unforced errors broke him in the 9th game ... RamK failed to hold in the next for losing the set ... In thr second set, Cilic played control game and with a break advantage completed win.

Yuki missed big opportunities in this match as he had numerous chances in the third set ... In the first set, Yuki broke Herbert early and kept that advantage for winning the set ... In the second set, Yuki lost focus and dipped his game ... Herbert broke him in the 2nd game to lead 3-0 and Herbert kept that advantage for winning it comfortably ... In the third, Yuki was putting pressure on Herbert's serve ... In 2nd and 4th games Yuki had 3 break points at 0-40, but he missed all six break points ... Yuki lost his serve in the 5th game, after that Herbert served big and didn't give chance to Yuki for winning the match.

Yuki-Divij scored a dominating win over their opponents inside 55 mins ... Next, they r facing top-seed Lindstedt-Skugor for place in the semis.


At $250K ASB WTA Classic 2018, Auckland, New Zealand

[QF] Magdalena Frech (POL)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs (2) Nao Hibino (JPN)/ Darija Jurak (CRO)

Prarthana and her Polish partner will be faced 2nd seeds in the quarters.

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...