Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Tennis News

At $748K New York Open 2018, USA

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (2) Max Mirnyi (BLR) /Philip Oswald (AUT) 36 46

Turning to be a bad week for Indians as Lee-Purav also lost in the straight sets.

At $50K+H Chennai Challenger 2018, India

[R2] (Q) Arjun Kadhe (IND,565) l Mohamed Safwat (EGY,218) 46 26
[R2] (Q) Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (IND,1367) l (3) Duckhee Lee (KOR,207) 26 46
[R2] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,112) bt (Q) Siddharth Rawat (IND,533) 62 63

[QF] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,112) vs (6) Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN,222)

Doubles
[QF] (WC) Kunal Anand (IND)/ Anvit Bendre (IND) l (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 06 26
[QF] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l Cem Ilkel (TUR)/ Danilo Petrovic (SRB) 46 62 4-10
[QF] (4) Luca Margaroli (SUI)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt Tuna Altuna (TUR)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) 67(4) 63 13-11
[QF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Alessandro Bega (ITA)/ Kimmer Coppejanes (BEL) 75 63

[SF] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs(4) Luca Margaroli (SUI)/ Saketh Myneni (IND)

Only Yuki remains in the singles draw at quarter-final stage ... Really bad performance from Indians in Chennai ... Abhinav and Arjun gave decent fight in their losses against top-220 players ... In the quarters, Yuki is facing Japanese Uchiyama.

In the doubles, our seeded pairs into the semis with the contrasting win ... Vishnu-Bala scored straight sets win over their opponents ... Next, they r facing Saki and Luca, who made a comeback win over after losing the first set.


At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Perth, Australia

[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,278) l Gabriella Taylor (GBR,277) 46 36

Doubles
[R1] (1) Prarthana G. Thombare (IND)/ Valeria Savinykh (RUS) l Chihiro Muramatsu (JPN)/ Ayano Shimizu (JPN) 63 67(1) 2-10

Karman gave decent fighting performance against in-form Taylor.

Prarthana and her Russian partner lost in the first round against Japanese pair.

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