Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2018, London, Great Britain

Doubles
[R1] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Wesley Koolhof (NED) 76(5) 64 76(4)
[R1] (12) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Alex De Minaur (AUS)/ John Millman (AUS) 62 62 64
[R1] (Q) Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Sander Arends (NED)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 67(5) 67(3) 67(2)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) bt Radu Albot (MDA)/ Malek Jaziri (TUN) 76(4) 67(8) 63 62

[R2] (Q) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (14) Ben McLachlan (JPN)/ Jan-Lennard Struff (GER)
[R2] (12) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Frederik Nielsen (DEN)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR)
[R2] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) vs Julio Peralta (CHI)/ Horacio Zeballos (ARG)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Alicja Rosolska (POL) vs Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROU)

Divij-Artem started with a win over Albot-Jaziri in four sets ... Both pairs split the first 2 sets which went to the tie-breaks ... After losing the second set Divij-Artem won next two sets comfortably ... Next, they r facing South American team, who defeated the 16th seed pair.
Vishnu and Bala matched against the experienced pairing of Daniell-Koolhof from the start ... They won the first set in the tie-break and pocked the second set with a single break advantage ... They saved break points before completing win in three sets after winning the third set in the tie-break ... Next, they r facing the 14th seed Ben McLachlan and Jan-Lennard Struff.
Rohan and Roger-Vasselin started with a comfortable win against Aussie pair ... Next, they r facing a tricky pairing of Frederik Nielsen and Joe Salisbury.
I was hoping better result from Jeevan-Austin pairing ... They lost in three tie-breaks against Dutch pairing of Arends and Middelkoop ... Both pairs failed to break each other but in the tie-breaks, Dutch pair served better.

In MXD, Only Divij is playing with his Polish partner, Alicja Rosolska ... They r facing experienced Matkowski and his partner Buzarnescu in the first round ... This time, Rohan has skipped the MXD.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Naiman, China,

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,421) bt (7) Yue Yuan (CHN,353) 26 61 62

[QF] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,421) vs (4) Fang Ying Xun (CHN,287)

Rutuja scored an excellent upset win over seeded Chinese opponent, Yue Yuan ... After losing the first set easily Rutuja made a strong comeback for winning next two sets convincingly ... Next, she is facing the top-300 Chinese girl, Fang Ying Xun.