Saturday, January 19, 2019

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2019, Melbourne, Australia

[R1] Samantha Stosur (AUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Kveta Peschke (CZE)/ Wesley Koolhof (NED) 64 75
[R1] Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l (5) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Robert Farah (COL) 63 36 6-10

[R2] Samantha Stosur (AUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (5) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Robert Farah (COL)

Junior
[R1] Mann Shah (IND,68) l Peter Makk (HUN,64) 64 06 26

Lee with Samantha Stosur started with a straight sets win over Peschke and Koolhof ... Next, they r facing the 5th seeds Groenefeld and Farah, who defeated Rohan and Zhaoxuan Yang in the match tie-break ... Rohan and Yang won the first set but failed to keep momentum after that.

Only Mann Shah played in the junior singles and lost two sets easily after winning the first set against the similar ranked Hungarian.


At $54K+H Koblenz Challenger 2019, Germany

[SF] (3) Fabricio Neis (BRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Filip Polasek (SVK) 46 46

A match against Jurgen Melzer and Filip Polasek were tough and that proved right as they defeated Purav and Neis in straight sets.

At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2019, Singapore

[SF] Ankita Raina (IND,203) bt (3) Conny Perrin (SUI,150) 64 61

[F] Ankita Raina (IND,203) vs (1) Arantxa Rus (NED,122)

Ankita is in the final with straight-sets win over another top-150 Swiss player ... In the first set, Ankita was 0-3 down after that she won 12 games from next 14 games ... In the final, she is facing the top-seed Dutch girl, Arantxa Rus ... It would be a great story if Ankita wins the title beating the top 3 seeds.

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