Sunday, September 16, 2018

Tennis News

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

India l Serbia 0-4

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)

Day 3
[R4] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,665) l Pedja Krstin (SRB,174) 36 16

India lost against Serbia 0-4 ... On the last day, India picked up Bala and Serbian played Pedja Krstin ... Pedja won comfortably and completed dominating win for Serbia.

At $80K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Biarritz, France

[R1] Tereza Smitkova (CZE)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) bt (2) An-Sophie Mestach (BEL)/ Alexandra Panova (RUS) 61 26 10-8

[QF] Tereza Smitkova (CZE)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) l Jessika Ponchet (FRA)/ Kimberley Zimmermann (BEL) 67(4) 26

Prarthana with Tereza scored an upset win over the 2nd seeds Mestach and Panova in the match tie-break, but they lost in the quarters against Ponchet and Zimmermann.

At $150K+H Kaohsiung Challenger 2018, Chinese Taipei

[R1] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,135) vs Maximilian Neuchrist (AUT,257)
[R1] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,162) vs Jurij Rodionov (AUT,258)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Austin Krajicek (USA) vs Tristan Lamasine (FRA)/ Hiroki Moriya (JPN)
[R1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Yuichi Sugita (JPN)/ Chu-Huan Yi (TPE)

RamK and Prajnesh r the seeded in the singles of the Kaohsiung Challenger ... Both r facing similar ranked Austrian players in the first round.

In the doubles, Jeevan and Krajicek r the top-seeds ... They r facing Lamasine and Moriya ... VSP is playing with RamK and they r facing the Taipei pair ... Bala and Vishu r the 2nd seeds and facing Sugita and Yi in the first round.


At $50K+H Sibiu Challenger 2018, Romania

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,295) vs (3) Pedro Sousa (POR,144)

Another tough first round for Sumit against top-150 Portuguese player, Pedro Sousa.

At $50K+H Biella Challenger 2018, Italy

[R1] (4) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Ivan Gakhov (RUS)/ Alexander Pavlioutchenkov (RUS)

The last week's Istanbul Challenger winners Purav and Rameez r the 4th seeds and facing Russian pair in the first round.

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