Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Tennis News

At € 686K European Open 2018, Antwerp, Belgium

[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,100) l (LL) Salvatore Caruso (ITA,167) 67(6) 75 16

Doubles
[R1] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) bt Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) 75 64

[QF] (4) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) vs Mackenzie McDonald (USA)/ Cameron Norrie (GBR)

Yuki lost in three sets against the lucky-loser Caruso ... Yuki was a rusty on the court and struggled with his usual fluent game ... He was two breaks up but failed to convert set point and then lost the first set tie-break ... He won the second set but then, he struggled with the match fitness in the third ... Good to see he played three sets and hopefully we will see positive results in next few weeks.

Divij and Artem started with straight sets win over Lee and Miguel ... Next, they r facing Norrie and McDonald.


At € 686K Intrum Stockholm Open 2018, Sweden

[R1] Ariel Behar (URU)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Julien Benneteau (FRA)/ Lucas Pouille (FRA) 06 64 3-10

Jeevan and Ariel Behar lost in the match tie-break against French pair in the first round.

At $100K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Suzhou, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,201) l Jana Cepelova (SVK,243) 16 26
[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,215) l (6) Lin Zhu (CHN,116) 06 06

A terrible day for Karman and Ankita ... Karman got double bageled by Zhu, really a shocking result ... Ankita also managed to win only 3 games against the former top-50 Cepelova in this one-sided loss.

At $150K Ningbo Challenger 2018, China

[R2] (7) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,170) bt Zhe Li (CHN,253) 63 26 76(0)

[QF] (7) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,170) vs Yunseong Chung (KOR,291)

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Rubin Statham (NZL) 60 63
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,169)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) bt (3) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Goncalo Oliveira (POR) 61 36 10-7
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP)/ Federico Gaio (ITA) 64 57 9-11

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,169)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND)

Prajnesh scored a patchy win over Chinese experienced player, Zhe Li ... After winning the first set Prajnesh lost the second set easily ... In the third, he was a break up but failed to his serve when he was serving for the match at 5-4 ... He dominated the tie-break as he won without losing a single point ... In the quarters, he is facing Korean Yunseong Chung, who defeated RamK in the first round.

Bala and Saki scored a dominating win over Moriya and Statham ... Next, they r facing Arjun and Prajnesh, who scored an upset win over the 3rd seeds pair ... Sumit and RamK lost in the close match tie-break against Gaio and Davidovich Fokina ... Our pair had chances which they failed to grab ... In the second set they failed to hold when serving for the set and in the match tie-break they had couple of match points which they failed to convert.


At $50K+H Ismaning Challenger 2018, Germany

[QF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Antonio Sancic (CRO) bt Tomislav Brkic (BIH)/ Ante Pavic (CRO) 75 62

Purav and Antonio r in the semis with straight sets win over Pavic and Brkic.

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