Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Tennis News

At $50K+H Pune Challenger 2018, India

[R2] (WC) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,355) bt (6) Jay Clarke (GBR,181) 57 64 4-1 Ret'd
[R2] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,110) bt (Q) Lucas Gerch (GER,794) 61 63
[R2] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND,370) l Brayden Schnur (CAN,189) 57 26

[QF] (WC) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,355) vs (1) Radu Albot (MDA,102)
[QF] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,110) vs Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ,186)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Siddanth Banthia (IND)/ Anvit Bendre (IND) bt (Alt) Kunal Anand (IND)/ Shahbaaz Khan (IND) 62 64

[QF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Antonio Sancic (CRO) l Max Purcell (AUS)/ Luke Saville (AUS) 75 36 11-13
[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) l (3) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 36 67(9)
[QF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Sanjar Fayziev (UZB)/ Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ) 63 64
[QF] (WC) Siddanth Banthia (IND)/ Anvit Bendre (IND) vs (4) Andrej Martin (SVK)/ Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)

Mukund continues with his terrific run as his opponent, Jay Clarke, retired after falling behind in the third set due to dizziness ... After losing the first set Mukund made an excellent comeback to win the second and was in an early lead with a break when Jay retired ... Next, he is having a tough match against the top-seed Radu Albot.
Prajnesh scored an expected comfortable win over the German qualifier Gerch ... Next, he is facing Nedo.
Arjun failed to keep the level of the game which he showed against Ram and lost in straight sets against Schnur.

In the doubles, Ram and VSP r in the semis with straight sets win over Nedo and Fayziev ... The top-seed Purav and Sancic lost in the match tie-break against the in-form Aussie pair ... After winning the first set tie-break Purav and Sancic lost the second but they fought back and missed match point before losing the match ... Arjun and Saki also lost in straight sets against the 3rd seeds Taipei pair.

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