Saturday, February 17, 2018

Tennis News

At $622K Delray Beach Open 2018, Florida, USA

[Q1] (8) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,141) bt Stefan Kozlov (USA,158) 63 62

[Q2] (8) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,141) vs (1) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA,109)

In their last meeting Kozlov defeated RamK losing three games ... This time, RamK turned a table and scored a dominating win over Kozlov ... RamK showed a lot of improvement in his game, so his training stint is showing improvements in his game ... Next, he is facing top-110 Fratangelo for place in the main-draw.

At $733K Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2018, UAE

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,253) l (3) Samantha Stosur (AUS,44) 46 46

A decent fight from Ankita against former top-5 player ... In this match, both players created ten break point chances, Stosur converted four and Ankita managed to convert only two.

At $50K+H Chennai Challenger 2018, India

Singles Final
(2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,112) l (1) Jordan Thompson (AUS,107) 57 63 57

Yuki had a poor service day and Thompson took advantage of it to win the title ... In this match, both players had a lot of service breaks, exactly 8 breaks each ... In the first set, both players exchanged couple of breaks and Thompson took a crucial break in the 12th game for winning it ... In the second set, Yuki broke Thompson in the 1st game to lead 2-0 but lost his serve in the 4th game for 2-all ... Yuki again broke Thompson in the 5th game and won the set breaking him in the 9th game when he was serving to stay in the set ... In the third set, Thompson was a double break up after breaking Yuki in the 1st and the 3rd game, 0-3 ... Yuki fought back and broke Thompson in the 4th and the 6th games for 3-all ... Thompson again broke Yuki in the 7th game but this time also Yuki broke him in the next for 4-all ... Yuki missed a match point in the 10th game on Thompson's serve ... Then, Thompson took a crucial break in the 11th game and hold comfortably for a win.

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