Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2019 - Qualifiers 1st Round,

The Indian team having a home tie against the seeded Italian team in the first round qualifiers ... The matches will be played on the 1st and 2nd February 2019 ... The Italian team is talented, we need to surprise them with hosting this tie on the Indian grass courts.

At $1M Chengdu Open 2018, China

[R1] (Q) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,164) l Matteo Berrettini (ITA,60) 36 46

Doubles
[R1] (Alt) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Ruben Bemelmans (BEL) bt Radu Albot (MDA)/ Malek Jaziri (TUN) 62 63

[QF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Austin Krajicek (USA) vs (Alt) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Ruben Bemelmans (BEL)
[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) l Guido Pella (ARG)/ Joao Sousa (POR) 67(1) 36

Prajnesh lost in straight sets against Berrettini ... In the first set, Prajnesh failed to recover from 0-4 down ... He tried fightback after breaking Berrettini but it was a huge task.

In the doubles, Prajnesh played as an alternate pair with Bemelman ... They started with a comfortable win over Albot and Jaziri ... Next, they r facing Jeevan and Austin.
Rohan and Bala lost in straight sets against Sousa and Pella in the quarters.


At $60K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Darwin, Australia

[R1] (4) Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Hiroko Kuwata (JPN) bt Gabriella Da Silva Fick (AUS)/ Sara Tomic (AUS) 64 16 10-7
[QF] (4) Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Hiroko Kuwata (JPN) bt Jodie Anna Burrage (GBR)/ Freya Christie (GBR) 16 62 10-7

[SF] (4) Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Hiroko Kuwata (JPN) vs Aldila Sutjiadi (INA)/ Olivia Tjandramulia (AUS)

Rutuja lost in the singles final qualifying round ... In the doubles with Hiroko Kuwata, she scored back to back the match tie-breaks win against good pairs ... In the semis, they r facing Sutjiadi and Tjandramulia.

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