Saturday, October 13, 2018

Tennis News

At $125K+H Santo Domingo Open 2018, Dominican Republic (clay)

Doubles Final
(2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) bt Ariel Behar (URU)/ Roberto Quiroz (ECU) 46 63 10-5

Lee and Miguel lifted the Santo Domingo challenger title ... In the final, they scored a comeback win after losing the first set against South American pairing of Behar and Quiroz ... This was Leander's 26th Challenger title.

At $25K+H ITF Women Tournament 2018, Lagos, Nigeria

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Singles Final
(6) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,449) bt (1) Conny Perrin (SUI,142) 61 76(2)

[SF] Riya Bhatia (IND,716) l (1) Conny Perrin (SUI,142) 76(4) 67(4) 46

Pranjala lifts back to back $25K title beating top-150 Swiss player, Conny Perrin ... She showed her last week's title win wasn't fluke and this time, defeated Conny in straight sets ... Before that, Conny won the third set against Riya for entering inthe final, Riya must cursed herself for missing two match points in the second set on her serve.

At $150K Ningbo Challenger 2018, China

[Q1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,483) bt Runhao Hua (CHN,978) 46 61 63
[Q1] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND,328) bye
[Q1] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,355) bye
[Q1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,601) l Rio Niguchi (JPN,478) 57 67(6)

[Q2] Saketh Myneni (IND,328) vs Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,483)
[Q2] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND,355) vs Jie Cui (CHN,815)

[R1] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,127) vs Yunseong Chung (KOR,294)
[R1] (7) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,169) vs Mohamed Safwat (EGY,198)
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,316) vs (3) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,122)

In the first qualifying round, Mukund scored a comeback win over a local player and next, he will be facing Saki ... Sid lost in tight two sets against top-500 Japanese opponent ... Arjun is facing a local player in the second qualifying.

RamK and Prajnesh r seeded in the singles ... But both r in the same draw and can meet in the quarters ... Sumit is facing top-125 ranked Italian, Thomas Fabbiano.


At $15K Thailand F6 Futures 2018, Hua Hin

[R1] (2) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,567) bt Kelsey Stevenson (CAN,1076) 62 retd.
[R1] (2) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,567) bt Congsup Congcar (THA,968) 26 75 61
[R1] (2) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,567) bt Felix Corwin (USA,823) 36 64 64
[R1] (2) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,567) bt (4) Shalva Dzhanashiya (RUS,592) 63 62

Singles Final
(2) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,567) l Ajeet Rai (NZL,1034) 36 64 46

Doubles Final
Ajeet Rai (NZL)/ Karunuday Singh (IND) l (1) Francis Casey Alcantara (PHI)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 16 61 6-10

Manish missed an opportunity of lifting Thai futures title ... He was leading 4-2 in the third, Ajeet won last 4 games for a title win.
In the doubles, Karunuday lost the doubles final pairing Ajeet, they lost against the top-seeds in the match tie-break.

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