Tennis News

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

India l Serbia 0-3

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] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Nikola Milojevic (SRB)/ Danilo Petrovic (SRB) 67(5) 26 67(4)

With our doubles loss we lost this tie against Serbia ... In the doubles, we used Saki in the place of Bala ... Rohan and Saki tried but Serbian pair were better on the court as they won the first and the third set in the tie-breaks ... Frankly, I am disappointed with our performance as we failed to take advantage of the weaken Serbian team ... In the doubles also, we played bad to lose this match.

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At $75K+H Istanbul Challenger 2018,Turkey

Doubles Final
(1) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (2) Timur Khabibulin (KAZ)/ Vladyslav Manafov (UKR) 76(4) 46 10-7

Purav lifted Istanbul Challenger title partnering Australian Rameez Junaid ... In the final, they defeated the 2nd seeds Khabibulin and Manafov in a tight match ... Here, Purav was only player who is ranked in the top-100 and others were below-150 ranked in the doubles ... So good to see he win this title.

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At $250K Guangzhou Open 2018, China

[Q1] (9) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,209) bt Jiaqi Kang (CHN,596) 62 62

[Q2] (9) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,209) vs (5) Danka Kovinic (MNE,189)

Karman is playing Guangzhou WTA tournament ... In the first round qualifying, she scored a comfortable win over her Chinese opponent ... In the final qualifying, she is facing former top-50 player, Danka Kovinic.