Monday, June 18, 2018

Tennis News

At €1.98M Queen's Open 2018, London, Great Britain

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Julien Benneteau (FRA) 63 76(3)

Rohan and Edouard started with straight sets win over Anderson and Benneteau.

At $150K Ilkley Trophy2018, Great Britain

[R1] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,128) l Sebastian Ofner (AUT,143) 57 36

Doubles
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) vs Peter Polansky (CAN)/ Matt Reid (AUS)
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Luke Bambridge (GBR)/ Jonny O'Mara (GBR)

Disappointing loss for RamK against Ofner ... In the first set, both players held their respective service games till 8th game ... Ofner took first break in the 9th game, 4-5 but RamK immediately broke him when he was serving for the set, 5-all ... Ofner again broke RamK in the 11th game and this time held his serve for winning the set ... In the second set, Ofner broke RamK in the 1st game, 0-2 ... Ofner again broke RamK in the 9th game when he was serving for staying in the match for completing win.

At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[Q3] Saketh Myneni (IND,440) bt Aslan Karatsev (RUS,531) 62 46 63
[Q3] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,385) l Tung-Lin Wu (TPE,446) 06 67(3)

[R1] (Q) Saketh Myneni (IND,447) vs Dzmitry Zhyrmont (BLR,406)

Doubles
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt (1) Gerard Granollers (ESP)/ Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP) 75 75
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Alex Lawson (USA) bt Laurynas Grigelis (LTU)/ Ivan Nedelko (RUS) 67(4) 76(3) 10-7

[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Alex Lawson (USA) vs Ivan Gakhov (RUS)/ Alexander Pavlioutchenkov (RUS)

Saki qualified with three sets win over Karatsev and facing 400+ ranked Dzmitry Zhyrmont in the first round ... But Mukund lost in straight sets against Taipei player Wu.

In the doubles, Saki-VSP scored an excellent upset over top-seed Spanish pair in straight sets ... Arjun with his new American partner Alex Lawson pulled a superb comeback win in tight match ... In their match, both sets went to the tie-breaks and then Arjun and Alex prevailed ... Next, they r facing Russian pair.

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