Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Tennis News

At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[Q2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) bt (32) Marcelo Arevalo (ESA,146) 64 61

[Q3] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) vs (13) Elias Ymer (SWE,122)

What a match Prajnesh played against higher ranked Arevalo ... He wasn't made much-unforced errors and played perfect clay court game ... In the first set, both players held their respective service games till 8th game ... Prajnesh broke Arevalo in the 9th game and then held his service game comfortably for winning the set ... In the second set, after 0-1 Prajnesh won next 6 games breaking Arevalo in the 3rd, 5th and 7th games ... He won 8 games of last 9 games played for a dominating win ... So now only Ymer is in-between of entry in French Open main-draw for Prajnesh.

At €501K Lyon Open 2018, France

[QF] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 67(7) 76(8) 10-8

Divij is in the semis with Garcia-Lopez ... They scored hard-fought comeback win after saving multiple match points to beat Skupski brothers in almost 2 hours match ... After losing the first set in the tie-break Divij-Guillermo won the second set tie-break on extra points ... They kept momentum in the match tie-break for completing this exciting win.

At $100K Loughborough Challenger 2018, England

[R1] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Matt Reid (AUS) l Robert Galloway (USA)/ Nathaniel Lammons (USA) 76(7) 26 8-10

The top-seeds, Jeevan and Matt Reid lost in the match tie-break against American pair in the first round of Loughborough Challenger ... They started with winning the first set in a long tie-break but failed to keep momentum.

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