Sunday, May 20, 2018

Tennis News

At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,226) vs (10) Martin Klizan (SVK,121)
[Q1] (12) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,124) vs Jay Clarke (GBR,228)
[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) vs Salvatore Caruso (ITA,229)

The qualifying draw is out ... RamK is the 12th seed and facing young Jay Clarke in the first qualifying ... Prajnesh is facing Italian Caruso in the first qualifying ... A tough match is for Sumit as he is facing in-form Martin Klizan ... In his last two tournaments, he qualified and reached the quarter-finals in Munich Open and Barcelona Open ... In those tournaments, he had notable wins over Novak Djokovic, Feliciano Lopez, Florian Mayer etc and losses against Rafael Nadal and Hyeon Chung.

In another update, Divij is going to partner Yuki in the doubles ... This can be a good partnership but I hoped they played one of the tournament before French Open.


At €501K Lyon Open 2018, France

[R1] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (1) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 64 62
[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Jackson Withrow (USA)
[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs (WC) Gregoire Barrere (FRA)/ Tristan Lamasine (FRA)

This week, Rohan, Divij, and Purav r playing at Lyon with their respective partners ... Purav-Fabrice r playing against American-Chilean combination, Withrow, and Podlipnik-Castillo ... Rohan and Edouard r the 2nd seed and they r facing French pair.

Divij is playing with Spaniard Garcia-Lopez and had a tough first round against experienced veterans; current top-10 player Jean-Julien Rojer and his partner Aisam ... But, Divij and Garcia-Lopez started with straight sets win over the top-seeds ... A really good win for Divij.


At $250K Internationaux de Strasbourg 2018, France

[R1] Monique Adamczak (AUS)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) l Qiang Wang (CHN)/ Yafan Wang (CHN) 16 26

Prarthana played in Strasbourg tournament partnering Australian Adamczak and another one-sided loss against Chinese pair in the first round.

At $100K Loughborough Challenger 2018, England

[R1] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) vs Robert Galloway (USA)/ Nathaniel Lammons (USA)

Jeevan is the top-seeds with Matt Reid and they r playing American pair in the first round of Loughborough Challenger.

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