Saturday, September 22, 2018

Tennis News

At $1M Chengdu Open 2018, China

[Q1] (7) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,162) bt (WC) Zihao Xia (CHN,512) 62 75

[Q2] (7) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,162) vs Hiroki Moriya (JPN,187)

Doubles
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) vs (1) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Mat Pavic (CRO)
[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) vs Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Austin Krajicek (USA)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) vs (2) Julio Peralta (CHI)/ Horacio Zeballos (ARG)

Prajnesh is playing the Chengdu open qualifying ... He started with an easy win over local wild-card player ... In the final qualifying, he is facing Japanese Hiroki Moriya, who defeated the top-seed Aussie Jason Kubler.

In the doubles, only Vishnu is missing from the list ... Leander and Miguel r again facing the top-seeds, this time the Croatian Dodig and Pavic ... Divij and Artem r the 3rd seeds but facing Jeevan and Krajicek in the first round ... Rohan is playing with Bala and they r facing the 2nd seeds Zeballos and Peralta.


At $800K Shenzhen Open 2018, China

[Q1] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,134) bt Max Purcell (AUS,239) 36 63 76(3)

[Q2] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,134) vs (WC) Yecong He (CHN,813)

RamK is playing in the Shenzhen Open qualifying ... He started with a comeback win over Aussie youngster Max Purcell ... In the final qualifying, he is facing Chinese wild-card player Yecong He, his opponent Safwat retired in the second set.

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

[SF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Austin Krajicek (USA) l (WC) Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE)/ Jimmy Wang (TPE) 67(4) 16

Jeevan and Krajicek lost in straight sets against local wild-card pair.

At $50K+H Biella Challenger 2018, Italy

Doubles Final
(4) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (3) Fabricio Neis (BRA)/ David Vega Hernandez (ESP) 46 46

Purav and Rameez failed to lift back to back title and lost the final in straight sets against the 3rd seeds Spanish-Brazilian combination.

At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2018, Anning, China

[R1] (7) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,1054) bt Chihiro Takayama (JPN,UNR) 61 63
[R2] (7) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,1054) bt Ai Kamiyoshihara (JPN,UNR) 62 60
[QF] (7) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,1054) bt (2) Ziyue Sun (CHN,705) 75 retd.

[SF] (7) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,1054) l (6) Ziyi Yang (CHN,1073) 36 46

Doubles
[R1] (4) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND)/ Dan Ni Wang (CHN) bt Tijana Nikolic (SRB)/ Arina Solomatina (RUS) 63 62
[QF] (4) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND)/ Dan Ni Wang (CHN) bt Chloe Isabella Tsang (AUS)/ WanNing Zhu (CHN) 64 61
[SF] (4) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND)/ Dan Ni Wang (CHN) bt (1) Jiaxi Lu (CHN)/ Qianqian Zhao (CHN) 64 76(4)

Women's Doubles Final
(4) Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND)/ Dan Ni Wang (CHN) bt (3) I-Hsuan Cho (TPE)/ Yi Tsen Cho (TPE) 76(4) 75

A good week for Sowjanya in China after coming out of injury break ... In the singles, she reached in the semis and in the doubles, with her Chinese partner, Dan Ni Wang, Sowjanya lifted the title without losing a single set.

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