Tennis News

At $50K+H Gwangju Challenger 2018, South Korea

[Q1] (7) Sidharth Rawat (IND,624) bye
[Q2] (7) Sidharth Rawat (IND,624) bt (WC) Woo Hyeok Jung (KOR,UNR) 60 63
[Q3] (7) Sidharth Rawat (IND,624) bt Matej Sabonov (CRO,896) 64 61

[R1] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,624) vs (WC) Cheong-Eui Kim (KOR,370)
[R1] (3) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,375) l (8) Renta Tokuda (JPN,307) 63 26 36
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND,346) vs (3) Alexander Bublik (KAZ,172)

Doubles
[R1] Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND) l Xin Gao (CHN)/ Fajing Sun (CHN) 46 57
[R1] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN) vs (WC) Hong Chung (KOR)/ Sang-Woo Noh (KOR)

Sid qualified for the main draw and having a first round match against top-400 local player ... Mukund lost in the singles and the doubles against higher ranked players ... Arjun having a tough match against top-175 Kazakh player, Alexander Bublik ... In the doubles, he and Matsui r playing against local wild card pair.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Nonthaburi, Thailand

[R1] (Q) Mahak Jain (IND,667) l Hua-Chen Lee (TPE,642) 57 36
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,388) bt (WC) Chanikarn Silakul (THA,1192) 62 62

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,388) vs (Q) Jia Qi Ren (CHN,1026)

Rutuja started with a comfortable win and playing Chinese qualifier in the second round ... Mahak qualified for the main draw but lost against similar ranked Taipei player in the first round.