Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Tennis News

At $590K Tata Open Maharashtra 2019, Pune, India

[R1] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND,392) l Laslo Djere (SRB,94) 57 67(6)
[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,133) bt Marcel Granollers (ESP,97) 46 64 63

[R2] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,133) vs (4) Malek Jaziri (TUN,45)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Radu Albot (MDA)/ Malek Jaziri (TUN) 61 62
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) bt David Marrero (ESP)/ Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI) 63 64

[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX)

Ram scored an excellent comeback win against experience Spaniard ... After losing the first set Ram served really well as he didn't face a single break point in next two sets ... In the second set, he broke Granollers in the 10th game for taking the match into decider ... In the final set, Ram broke Granollers early to lead 4-1 and he kept that advantage for winning the match ... Next, he is facing the top-50 Tunisian Jaziri ... Tough luck for Saki as he withdrew due to the foot injury.
Arjun gave fighting performance in his loss against the top-100 Serbian ... Arjun started well and was a break up at 4-1, but Djere broke back to make it 4-all ... Djere broke Arjun in the 11th game and held his serve for winning the first set ... The second set was lot closer, which Djere won on the tie-break.

In the doubles, an excellent start for Divij and Rohan as they won their first round match losing only three games ... Next, they r facing Lee and Miguel, who also started with straight sets win.

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