Monday, September 03, 2018

Tennis News

At $150K Chicago WTA 2018, USA

[Q1] (8) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,207) l Quinn Gleason (USA,414) 67(7) 60 16

Karman lost in the first qualifying round against American Gleason ... A little bit weird to lost the third set with such scoreline after winning the second 6-0.

At $50K+H Zhangjiagang Challenger 2018, China

[Q1] (Alt) Sidharth Rawat (IND,604) bt (WC) Ruikai Wang (CHN,1395) 60 61
[Q1] (5) Arjun Kadhe (IND,328) bt Jacopo Berrettenni (ITA,596) 36 61 64
[Q1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,384) l (WC) Fajing Sun (CHN,672) 16 26
[Q1] Manish Sureshkumar (IND,557) bt (6) Yan Bai (CHN,343) 64 61
[Q1] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,590) l Kristian Lozan (RUS,542) 64 36 0-3 retd.

[Q2] (Alt) Sidharth Rawat (IND,604) bt Shintaro Imai (JPN,514) 63 61
[Q2] (5) Arjun Kadhe (IND,328) l Yusuke Takahashi (JPN,373 ) 46 46
[Q2] Manish Sureshkumar (IND,557) l (WC) Fajing Sun (CHN,672) 36 36

[Q3] (Alt) Sidharth Rawat (IND,604) vs (8) Dayne Kelly (AUS,360)

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,325) vs (8) Alexander Bublik (KAZ,203)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (WC) Fajing Sun (CHN)/ Shi Hong Zeng (CHN)
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Rubin Statham (NZL) vs (WC) Xin Gao (CHN)/ Zhizhen Zhang (CHN)
[R1] Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs Alexander Bublik (KAZ)/ Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB)

In the first qualifying round, Manish started with an upset win over top-350 Chinese player but lost against lower ranked Fajing Sun in the second qualifying ... Fajing Sun also defeated Mukund easily in the first qualifying ... After losing the first set Arjun won next two comfortably in the first qulifying but lost in straight sets against lower ranked Japanese opponent in the second ... With an advantage of a weak draw, Sid is in the final qualifying round with comfortable wins.

Saki is back on the tour but having a tough match against big-serving Kazakh Bublik in the first round.

In the doubles, Vishnu and Bala r returning on the tour and facing Chinese wild-card pair in the first round ... Arjun is partnering an experienced Statham and they r also facing local wild-card pair ... VSP is playing with Ignatik and they r facing Bublik and Kecmanovic.


At $75K Sevilla Challenger 2018, Spain

[R1] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,134) vs Qualifier

RamK is facing a qualifier in the first round.

At $150K+H Genoa Challenger 2018, Italy

[Q1] (3) Sumit Nagal (IND,306) bt (WC) Luca Prevesto (ITA,1030) 63 62
[Q2] (3) Sumit Nagal (IND,306) bt Jan Satral (CZE,416) 62 67(1) 64

[Q3] (3) Sumit Nagal (IND,306) bt (5) Juan Pablo Varillas (PER,327) 61 64

Sumit qualified for the Genoa Challenger with a comfortable win over the in-form player, Juan Pablo Varillas.

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