Saturday, December 01, 2018

Tennis News

At 2019 AO Asia-Pacific Wildcard Play-off, Guangdong Province, China

[QF] (7) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,280) l Chihiro Muramatsu (JPN,412) 26 57

Doubles
[SF] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) l (1) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Zhang Ze (CHN) 46 26

Boys' 18/u Singles
[SF] (1) Mann Shah (IND,99) l (7) Baoluo Zheng (CHN,568) 75 46 46

Turned to be a bad day for the Indians as our all players lost their respective matches and chance of getting the wild card for AO 19 ... Pranjala struggled with her game and lost in straight sets against her Japanese opponent.

I was hoping spirited performance by Bala and Arjun but they lost easily against the local top-seeds Gong and Ze.

Mann started well after winning the first set but then failed to capitalize against the lowly ranked local player.


At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Pune, India

P.C. to Karman's FB page
[SF] (4) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,223) bt (2) Ankita Raina (IND,198) 26 62 64

[F] (4) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,223) vs (1) Tamara Zidansek (SLO,86)

Doubles Final
(1) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) bt (WC) Aleksandrina Naydenova (BUL)/ Tamara Zidansek (SLO) 62 67(5) 11-9

The battle of becoming the India's #1 in the year-end ranking is intensified ... Karman drew a first blood as she scored a fighting comeback win over her senior partner Ankita in three sets ... With this win she will sneak ahead of Ankita but there are still 3 more tournaments to decide ... In the final, Karman is facing a tough challenge of the top-100 player, Tamara Zidansek.

Ankita and Karman captured the women's doubles title against experienced players, Aleksandrina Naydenova and Tamara Zidansek ... After winning the first set they faced stiff resistant from Naydenova and Zidansek but managed to complete win in a closely fought the match tie-break.

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