Saturday, June 16, 2018

Tennis News

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

[Q1] (5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,84) bt (WC) James Ward (GBR,407) 46 61 62

[Q2] (5) Yuki Bhambri (IND,84) vs (3) Taylor Fritz (USA,67)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Julien Benneteau (FRA)

An excellent comeback win by Yuki at Queen's Open qualifying against very experienced grass court specialist British player, James Ward ... After losing the first set Yuki made a strong comeback for winning next two sets comfortably ... Next, he is facing American youngster Taylor Fritz.

Rohan-Edouard r playing against Benneteau and Anderson in the first round.


At $936K Nature Valley Classic 2018, Birmingham, Great Britain

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,203) l Priscilla Hon (AUS,164) 36 63 46

Good to see Ankita got chance of playing in Birmingham qualifying, but she lost in three sets against Aussie youngster Priscilla Hon.

At €1.98M Gerry Weber Open 2018, Halle, Germany

[Q1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak l (WC) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Dustin Brown (GER) 36 63 2-10

At Halle, Divij-Artem played in the doubles qualifying but lost against German pair in the match tie-break.

At $150K+H Nottingham Trophy2018, Great Britain

Doubles Final
(4) Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Frederik Nielsen (DEN)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) 67(5) 16

Jeevan-Krajicek lost in the final against a good grass court pair Nielsen-Salisbury ... After winning the first set tie-break Nielsen-Salisbury dominated the second.

At $150K Ilkley Trophy2018, Great Britain

[Q1] (3) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,169) vs Dennis Novikov (USA,194)

A tricky match against American youngster for Prajnesh.

At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2018, Uzbekistan

[Q1] Saketh Myneni (IND,440) bt (1) Kaichi Uchida (JPN,300) 63 64
[Q1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,527) bt Sagadat Ayap (KAZ,1614) 62 62
[Q1] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,360) bt Roman Khassanov (KAZ,744) 63 63
[Q1] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,385) bt N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,506) 63 64

[Q2] Saketh Myneni (IND,440) vs Vladyslav Manafov (UKR,480)
[Q2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,527) vs Aslan Karatsev (RUS,531)
[Q2] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,360) vs Tung-Lin Wu (TPE,446)
[Q2] (6) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,385) vs (WC) Aziz Dadabaev (UZB,UNR)

Saki started with an upset win over top-300 Japanese Uchida in straight sets ... Mukund, Arjun and Sid also joined him in the second qualifying with straight sets win ... Next matches are also winnable for our players.

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