Friday, November 23, 2018

Tennis News

At $50K+H Pune Challenger 2018, India

[SF] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,110) bt (1) Radu Albot (MDA,102) 16 64 64

[F] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,110) vs (3) Elias Ymer (SWE,132)

Doubles
[SF] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt (4) Andrej Martin (SVK)/ Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI) 76(7) 60

[F] N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (3) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)

Prajnesh playing quality tennis with his new found confidence ... He made a superb fightback to beat Albot in three sets ... In the final, he is having the Swedish challenge of Elias Ymer.
In the first set Prajnesh struggled with Albot's ground strokes and lost this set cheaply ... But he recovered in the second set and took a crucial break in the 7th game to lead 4-3 ... He held his service games to win the set ... In the third set, he took an early break to lead 2-1 ... Prajnesh faced stiff challenge from Albot in next service games, hesaved a break point in the 6th game to lead 4-2 and he again needed to save 2 break points in the 8th game before holding to lead 5-3 ... Prajnesh held his serve comfortably in the 10th game and completed an excellent comeback win.

Ram and VSP r in the final with straight sets win over the 4th seeds ... After winning the first set in the close tie-break, Ram and VSP won the second set without losing a single game ... In the final, they r facing the 3rd seeds Taipei pair.

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