Saturday, April 14, 2018

Tennis News

At €501K Grand Prix Hassan II 2018, Marrakech, Morocco

[SF] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) l (1) Nikola Mectic (CRO)/ Alexander Peya (AUT) 36 63 9-11

Divij and Jan-Lennard tried fightback after losing the first set ... But in closely fought match tie-break Peya-Mectic prevailed.

At $150K+H Santaizi Challenger 2018, Taipei, Taiwan

[SF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,105) bt (8) Tatsuma Ito (JPN,155) 36 63 64
[SF] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,132) bt (7) Go Soeda (JPN,153) 76(9) 64

[F] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND,105) vs (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,132)

Doubles
[SF] (ALT) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt (WC) Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE) 26 64 14-12

[F] (ALT) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Mathew Ebden (AUS)/ Andrew Whittington (AUS)

All Indian final at Santaizi Challenger ... RamK moved into the final with straight sets win over experienced Go Soeda ... In this match RamK was struggled with his game but he was serving superbly ... In the first set, no one got break point ... In the tie-break, RamK had couple of mini-breaks but he failed to convert ... He took another mini-break on the 19th point and won point on his serve for winning the set ... In the second set, only break came in the 3rd game ... RamK broke Soeda and after that held his service game comfortably for a win ... This win will push his ranking inside top-120.

In this match also slow start for Yuki ... Yuki lost his serve in the 6th game, 2-4, after that both players held their service games ... After losing the first set Yuki broke Ito in the 2nd game to lead 3-0, but lost his serve in the 5th game, 3-2 ... Yuki again broke Ito in the 8th game , 5-3 and held his serve for winning this set ... In the final set, Yuki broke Ito in the 3rd game, 2-1, but after Ito's medical timeout he lost his serve in the next game, 2-all ... Yuki again broke Ito in the 5th game, 3-2 ... After that both players held their respective service games ... Ito tried to put extra pressure on Yuki's last two service games but Yuki managed to hold and completed another comeback win ... With this win Yuki has secured the main draw entries in French Open and Wimbledon.

Saki-Prajnesh r in the final with comeback win over local wild-card pair ... After losing the first set easily our pair fought back for winning the second ... Both pairs were neck to neck in the match tie-break but our pair manged to win it .. In the final, they r facing Aussie pair.

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