Saturday, March 17, 2018

Tennis News

At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Gwalior, India

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Singles Final
(4) Ankita Raina (IND,255) bt (2) Amandine Hesse (FRA,215) 62 75

Ankita won her second $25K title beating Amandine Hesse in straight sets ... Ankita didn't face a break point on her serve in this match ... She won the first set breaking Hesse twice and in the second set, a crucial break came in the 12th game on Hesse's serve ... With this win Ankita also took a revenge of her loss against Hesse in Mumbai WTA.

At $15K India F3 Futures 2018, Chandigarh

[R1] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,235) bt Goran Markovic (SRB,959) 64 62
[R2] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,235) bt Thales Turini (BRA,1022) 61 63
[QF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,235) bt Dalwinder Singh (IND,1041) 75 63
[SF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,235) bt (8) Manuel Pena Lopez (ARG,656) 61 64

Singles Final
(1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,235) bt (3) Hoang Nam Ly (VIE,475) 63 64

Doubles Final
(1) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND)/ Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND) 63 61

As expected a comfortable title win for Prajnesh against his Vietnamese opponent Ly in straight sets.

In the doubles, Arjun-VSP lifted their 2nd title in a row in three finals ... Kaza and Mohit failed to challenge them into the final.


At $75K Qujing Challenger 2018, China

[Q1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,459) bt Andreas Siljestrom (SWE,UNR) 63 75

[Q2] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,459) vs Rui-Xuan Wang (CHN,1908)

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,235) vs Andrea Pellegrino (ITA,353)

Bala started with straight sets win over Swede ... Next, he is facing local player for a place in the man draw ... Prajnesh is in the main draw and facing Italian Pellegrino.

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