Friday, September 14, 2018

Tennis News

At Davis Cup - World Group Play-Offs 2018, Kraljevo, Serbia

India vs Serbia 0-2

Day 1
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,135) l Laslo Djere (SRB,86) 63 46 67(2) 26
[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,162) l Dusan Lajovic (SRB,56) 46 36 46

Day 2
[R3] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Nikola Milojevic (SRB)/ Danilo Petrovic (SRB)

Day 3
[R4] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,135) vs Dusan Lajovic (SRB,56)
[R5] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,162) vs Laslo Djere (SRB,86)

RamK started well and played percentage tennis to win the first set ... After that, Djere recovered and played smart tennis for winning next three sets ... RamK tried hard but Djere was a better player on the court ... Lajovic controlled the match and comfortably won in three sets against Prajnesh.

At $75K+H Istanbul Challenger 2018,Turkey

[SF] (1) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (3) Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR) 62 46 10-7

[F] (1) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (2) Timur Khabibulin (KAZ)/ Vladyslav Manafov (UKR)

Purav and Rameez r in the final ... They defeated Elgin and Shyla in the match tie-break ... In the final, they r facing the 2nd seeds Khabibulin and Manafov.

At $75K Shanghai Challenger 2018, China

[SF] (4) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (2) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Ze Zhang (CHN) 26 67(4)

Vishnu and Bala lost in straight sets against the 2nd seeds Chinese pair.

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