Monday, November 12, 2018

Tennis News

At $150K+H Bangalore Challenger 2018, India

[Q3] Siddharth Vishwakarma (IND,1223) l Youssef Hossam (EGY,480) 46 46
[Q3] (7) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) bt Mick Lescure (FRA,494) 61 61

[R1] (WC) Sumit Nagal (IND,309) bt (7) Jay Clarke (GBR,174) 64 75
[R1] (Q) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,418) vs Collin Altamirano (USA,286)

[R2] (WC) Sumit Nagal (IND,309) vs James Ward (GBR,199)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) l Max Purcell (AUS)/ Luke Saville (AUS) 26 26
[R1] (WC) S.D. Prajwal Dev (IND)/ Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) bt Alexander Pavlioutchenkov (RUS)/ Filip Peliwo (CAN) 16 76(3) 10-2
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt (4) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) 63 36 11-9

[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs (WC) S.D. Prajwal Dev (IND)/ Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND)

This time, the last year's finalists met each other in the first round and last year's result repeated again ... Sumit scored straight sets win over the top-175 ranked Jay Clarke ... In the first set, Sumit was a break up at 3-2 but Jay broke back at 3-all ... Sumit took a crucial break in the 9th game on Jay's serve and held his serve for winning the set ... In the second set Sumit broke Jay in the 3rd game to lead 3-1 but this time also Jay broke back for 3-all ... Sumit took a crucial break in the 11th game and then held his serve for an exciting win ... Next, he is facing a British veteran, James Ward.

Mukund qualified for the main draw with a comfortable win over Frenchman Lescure ... In the main draw, he is facing the American Collin Altamirano.
Siddharth Vishwakarma lost in straight sets against Youssef Hossam.

In the doubles, the youngsters Dev-Niki started with an excellent comeback win against Pavlioutchenkov and Peliwo ... Next, they r facing Saki and Arjun ... They scored an exciting win over the experienced Ratiwatanas in the match tie-break ... The Sood twins failed to challenge the Aussie pair.


At $150K+H Houston Challenger 2018, Texas, USA

[R1] (2) Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) vs Luca Margaroli (SUI)/ David Vega Hernandez (ESP)

Lee and Miguel r facing Margaroli and Vega Hernandez in the first round.

At $125K Taipei OEC Open 2018, Chinese Taipei

[Q1] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,198) bt (WC) Kwan Yau NG (HKG,841) 64 64

[Q2] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,198) l (6) Yuxuan Zhang (CHN,213) 26 26

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,197) l (5) Nao Hibino (JPN,119) 67(6) 16

Disappointing results for Indian girls ... Karman failed to overcome the Chinese challenge in the final qualifying round ... Ankita gave a fighting performance in the first set against the top-125 player Hibino but proved too strong in the second.

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