Saturday, June 23, 2018

Tennis News

At €721K Eastbourne International 2018, Great Britain

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak vs (1) Juan Sebastian Cabal (COL)/ Robert Farah (COL)

It seems Divij will be playing with Artem Sitak in Wimbledon ... They r playing in Eastbourne and facing the top-seed Colombian pair.

At €486K Antalya Open 2018,Turkey

[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)

Purav and Fabrice r playing in Antalya and facing Demoliner-Gonzalez in the first round.

At $150K Ilkley Trophy2018, Great Britain

P.C. to Ilkley Trophy twitter handle
Doubles Final
Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Kevin Krawietz (GER)/ Andreas Mies (GER) 63 63

Jeevan-Krajicek lifted the title at Ilkley beating German pair comfortably ... Jeevan and Krajicek pairing can be dangerous floater in Wimbledon qualifying and in the main draw.

At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[SF] (Q) Saketh Myneni (IND,447) l (1) Nikola Milojevic (SRB,184) 46 75 06

Doubles Final
Saketh Myneni (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l Ivan Gakhov (RUS)/ Alexander Pavlioutchenkov (RUS) 46 46

Saki played too many matches in last 8 days and that was visible in the third set as he received bagel ... This singles semi-final was his 10th match in eight days ... Still, a terrific effort from him.

After losing the first set Saki matched Milojevic's game ... Both players held their respective service games until the 11th game ... Saki broke Milojevic in the 12th game for winning the second set ... In the third set, Saki was visibly tired and made lot of unforced errors ... Milojevic broke him in the 1st, 3rd and 5th games to give bagel.

Saki-VSP lost in the doubles final against Russian pair in straight sets ... This was Saki's 11th match in eighth days, so after his singles loss I wasn't expected much from this match.


At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Singapore

P.C. to Karman's FB page
Singles Final
(2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,262) bt (1) Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,185) 61 62

Karman lifted her first $25K title beating top-200 Chinese girl, Jia-Jing Lu ... Karman dominated the match and didn't give any chance to Lu ... Karman used her huge serve in her advantage and Lu failed to handle this ... With this win, Karman will be climbing to her career best ranking around top-225.

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