Thursday, February 01, 2018

Tennis News

At $125K Dallas Challenger 2018, Texas, USA

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) bt Ruben Gonzales (PHI)/ Hunter Reese (USA) 63 26 17-15
[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Luke Bambridge (GBR)/ Denis Kudla (USA) 63 36 10-4

[SF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) vs (3) Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jackson Withrow (USA)
[SF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Dennis Novikov (USA)/ Goncalo Oliveira (POR)

Lee and Joe scored a win in another long match tie-break, this time 32 points, for entering into the semis ... After winning the first set they lost the second set easily after 0-4 down ... In the match tie-break, Lee-Joe were up 6-0 with an early mini-breaks but they lost the advantage ... They had a match point at 10-9 on their service but failed to convert ... From 14-15, they won next two points on opponent's serve and then converted 6th match point for a win ... In the semis, they r facing 3rd seed American pair.

Jeevan and Chris r in the semis with completing win in the match tie-break ... Next, they r facing unseeded pairing of Oliveira and Novikov, who defeated 2nd seed pair in the quarters.


At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Glasgow, Great Britain (Indoor hard)

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,282) l (8) Georgina Garcia-Perez (ESP,161) 46 26

Karman lost in the straight sets against Garcia-Perez.

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