Tennis News

At $100K Aptos Challenger 2018, California, USA

[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Marc Polmans (AUS)/ Max Purcell (AUS) 67(5) 26

The seeded Purav and Jeeval lost against the Aussie pair in straight sets.

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At $150K Jinan Challenger 2018, China

[QF] (ALT) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND)/ Miliaan Niesten (NED) l Zhe Li (CHN)/ Di Wu (CHN) 63 36 5-10

Mukund-Niesten lost in the match tie-break against Zhe Li and Di Wu.

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At $60K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Jinan, China

[R2] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,195) bt En Shuo Liang (TPE,287) 36 76(15) 63

[QF] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,195) vs (2) Yafan Wang (CHN,93)

Doubles
[QF] Anastasia Gasanova (RUS)/ Ankita Raina (IND) bt (2) Chen Liang (CHN)/ Qiu Yu Ye (CHN) 67(10) 75 11-9

[SF] Anastasia Gasanova (RUS)/ Ankita Raina (IND) l (3) Shu-Ying Hsieh (TPE)/ Jing Jing Lu (CHN) 46 76(5) 5-10

A very punishing schedule for Ankita as she was on the court for more than 7 hours playing three matches ... She won her singles match in 3 hours after winning the second set marathon tie-break, in that she saved 5 match points, and then won the third set ... Then she played almost 2 hours and 25 mins. the doubles quarter-final against the 2nd seeds Chinese pair and scored hard-fought comeback win ... Immediately she and Gasanova played the semi-final against the third seeds Lu and Hsieh and lost in the match tie-break ... I am not expecting much from her in the singles quarter-final against top-100 Chinese player.

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

[QF] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,419) bt (Q) Dabin Kim (KOR,504) 63 67(3) 62

[SF] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,419) vs Xiyu Wang (CHN,384)

Doubles
[SF] (3) Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) bt (2) Hiroko Kuwata (JPN)/ Junri Namigata (JPN) 64 76(4)

[F] (3) Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND) vs (1) Naiktha Bains (AUS)/ Barbora Stefkova (CZE)

Pranjala continues with her terrific run for entering into the semis ... In the semis, she is facing the junior top-10 Chinese player, Xiyu Wang, who defeated Karman in the second round.

Pranjala is in the final of the doubles with Rutuja, they defeated the higher ranked Japanese pair in straight sets ... They r having a tough final against the top-150 doubles Czech and Aussie players.