Thursday, January 10, 2019

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2019, Melbourne, Australia

[Q2] (6) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,112) bt Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP,213) 63 63
[Q2] (21) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,132) l Rudolf Molleker (GER,207) 75 57 67(6-10)

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,205) l (29) Paula Badosa Gibert (ESP,140) 64 26 46

[Q3] (6) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,112) vs Yosuke Watanuki (JPN,192)

Prajnesh is in the final qualifying round with straight sets win over the Spaniard, Enrique Lopez Perez ... Lopez Perez failed to challenge Prajnesh for this routine win ... In the final qualifying, Prajnesh is facing a tricky opponent in a rising Japanese youngster, Yosuke Watanuki.

Ram lost in a close match against the 18 yrs. old talented German, Rudolf Molleker ... Both players split first 2 sets with a single break advantage ... Ram broke Molleker in the 11th game of the first set and then held his serve ... Molleker broke Ram in the 12th game of the second set for winning it ... In the final set, Molleker was matching Ram's game and playing excellent tennis ... Played some beautiful passing shots and played important points well when really mattered ... Ram missed a big opportunity of breaking Molleker's serve in the 7th game when he had a couple of break points at 15-40 ... In the new final set tie-break format, Molleker controlled from the start to complete upset win.

Ankita started well against the top-150 Spanish girl, Paula Badosa Gibert ... She won the first set but Badosa Gibert took control in the second for winning with a double break ... In the third also, Ankita gave her best but not having a big shot (powerful forehand or backhand) as a weapon hurt her game ... In end a fighting performance by Ankita.


At $54K+H Vietnam Tennis Open 2019, Da Nang City, Vietnam

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) bt Antoine Escoffier (FRA)/ Yusuke Takahashi (JPN) 63 61

[SF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) vs (4) Timur Khabibulin (KAZ)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)

A very dominating win by Lee and Miguel against French-Japanese combination ... In the semis, they r facing the 4th seeds Khabibulin and Yang.

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