Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2018, London, Great Britain

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,85) vs (Q) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,121)

Doubles
[R1] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Wesley Koolhof (NED)
[R1] (12) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Alex De Minaur (AUS)/ John Millman (AUS)
[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Mirza Basic (BIH)/ Dusan Lajovic (SRB)
[R1] (Q) Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Sander Arends (NED)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak vs Radu Albot (MDA)/ Malek Jaziri (TUN)

The draw is out ... In the singles, Yuki is facing Italian qualifier Fabbiano ... This is a tough match for unfit Yuki as Fabbiano qualified with three good wins and Yuki has losing records against him ... Yuki has lost all three matches against Fabbiano including last year on grass at Nottingham.

In the doubles, our players having a decent draw as our players avoid seeded pair in the first round ... The first-timer Vishnu and Bala r facing experienced pairing of Daniell-Koolhof ... Jeevan-Austin r facing a Dutch pair ... Divij-Artem r facing Albot-Jaziri ... Purav-Fabrice r facing Lajovic-Basic ... Rohan is the 12th seeds with Roger-Vasselin and they r facing Aussie pair.

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At $15K Sri Lanka F3 Futures 2018, Colombo

[R1] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt Sharmal Dissanayake (SRI,1347) 60 retd.
[R2] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt Diego Matos (BRA,1980) 61 76(2)
[QF] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt (3) Michal Dembek (POL,667) 63 63
[SF] (5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1098) 36 64 64

Singles Final
(5) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,742) bt (6) Vladyslav Orlov (UKR,863) 76(6) 06 61

Doubles Final
Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND)/ Manish Sureshkumar (IND) l Jirat Navasirisomboon (THA)/ Chanchai Sookton-Eng (THA) 26 46

18 yrs. old Manish Sureshkumar lifted his first futures title in Sri Lanka ... He defeated Ukrainian Orlov in three sets ... After winning the tight first set in the tie-break Manish lost his focus ... Orlov took advantage for winning the second set without losing a game ... But Manish recovered in the third and comfortably completed victory ... In this future, 19 yrs. old Nitin Kumar also performed well and lost the semis against Manish.
Manish failed to lift double crown ... He with Mohit Mayur lost in straight sets against Thai pair.

In first two weeks of Sri Lankan futures Manish performed above expectation ... In the first week, he reached in the final and lost against top-600 Russian Alexander Zhurbin ... In the second week, he reached into the semis and lost against top-400 Spaniard David Perez Sanz ... So when these all points will get added then Manish will be in top-600.

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At $15K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Guimaraes, Portugal

[R1] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) bt Valeria Bhunu (ZIM,847) 62 46 63
[R1] (Q) Mihika Yadav (IND,1057) bt (Q) Lauren Proctor (USA,UNR) 64 57 75

[R2] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) bt Linnea Malmqvist (SWE,851) 64 46 64
[R2] (Q) Mihika Yadav (IND,1057) l (Q) Yuriko Lily Miyazaki(JPN,UNR) 36 63 36

[QF] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) bt (Q) Alice Garcia (BRA,1064) 64 63

[SF] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) bt (2) Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (SWE,514) 26 75 63

[F] (4) Zeel Desai (IND,661) vs (5) Maria Joao Koehler (POR,668)

Doubles Final
(3) Zeel Desai (IND)/ Cristina Ene (ROU) l Karola Patricia Bejenaru (ROU)/ Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (SWE) 16 06

Zeel scored an excellent comeback win over Swedish girl, Jacqueline Cabaj Awad, after losing the first set ... She is having a tough final against former WR #102 ranked local girl, Maria Joao Koehler.
In the doubles final, Zeel and her Romanian partner Ene failed to challenge Cabaj Awad and Bejenaru.