Saturday, April 28, 2018

Tennis News

At $150K+H Anning Challenger 2018, China

[SF] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,260) bt Kamil Majchrzak (POL,231) 06 63 61

[F] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,260) vs Mohamed Safwat (EGY,226)

The dream weeks for Indian tennis players in these big Chinese challengers ... First, Yuki secured his French Open, Wimbledon and US Open main-draw entries after winning the Santaizi Challenger ... In the same challenger, reaching in the final has helped Ramkumar to be top-16 seeded in the French open qualifiers ... This week, Prajnesh needed to reach in the final in this big Anning Challenger for securing French Open and Wimbledon qualifying entries and he achieves that with some solid wins.

What a turnaround after losing the first set by Prajnesh ... Prajnesh was looking sick or injured as he wasn't moving freely on the court and got bagel in the first set ... In the second set, Prajnesh started to play his game ... He broke Kamil in the 2nd game to lead 3-0 and kept that advantage for winning the set ... In the final set, Prajnesh was in total control as he broke Prajnesh three times for winning the set comfortably for entering in to the final ... In the final, he is facing Egyptian Mohamed Safwat.


At $75K Tallahassee Challenger 2018, Florida, USA

[QF] (4) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Martin Ceuvas (URU)/ Hugo Dellien (BOL) 63 46 10-7
[QF] (4) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt (1) Luke Bambridge (GBR)/ Jonny O'Mara (GBR) 64 64

Doubles Final
(4) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Denis Kudla (USA)/ Robert Gallaway (USA) 36 16

Jeevan lost in the final with his Spanish partner Lopez Perez in one-sided match against American pair ... Before that in the semis, they defeated the top-seed British pair in straight sets.

At €486K TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open 2018, Turkey

[Q1] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,115) bt Aldin Setkic (BIH,241) 64 63

[Q2] (1) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,115) vs Marco Trungelliti (ARG,188)

After winning the first set RamK was in a control in the second ... RamK took an early break to lead 1-0 ... He again broke Setkic in the 9th game when he was serving to stay in the set ... In the final qualifying RamK is facing Argentine former top-130 player, Marco Trungelliti.

At $25K Uzbekistan F2 Futures 2018, Karshi

P.C. Saketh's FB page
Singles Final
Saketh Myneni (IND,530) bt (7) Yaraslav Shyla (BLR,440) 46 63 76(4)

Saki wins his first singles title in this Uzbek futures after very long injury break ... Saki started slowly and Yaraslav Shyla won the first set with a single break advantage ... Saki fought back for winning the second set ... In the last set, both players were neck to neck but Saki took control of tie-break and converted the 3rd match point for a win.


At $15K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Cairo, Egypt

[SF] Snehadevi S REDDY (IND,994) l Charlotte ROEMER (ECU,1028) 16 0-4 retd.

Snehadevi retired in the second set after a double break down against Roemer.

No comments:

Table Tennis News

At $70K ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open 2020 , Muscat, Oman [R32] Harmeet Desai (IND,87) bt Jeremy Hazin (CAN,164) 4-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4,...