Tuesday, January 08, 2019

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2019, Melbourne, Australia

[Q1] (21) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,132) bt Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol (ESP,211) 63 62

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,205) bt Myrtille Georges (FRA,238) 62 62
[Q1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,207) l (16) Jennifer Brady (USA,115) 06 57

[Q2] (21) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,132) vs Rudolf Molleker (GER,207)

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,205) vs (29) Paula Badosa Gibert (ESP,140)

Ram scored a comfortable win over Sergio ... In the first set, he was a break down at 2-3 but afterward, he took control of the match ... He won 8 of next 10 games for a convincing win ... Next, Ram is facing the 18 yrs. old talented Rudolf Molleker.

Ankita started with a dominating win against a similar ranked player Georges ... In both sets, Ankita was a better player on the court and Georges failed to give proper fight in this match ... Next, she is facing the top-150 Spanish girl, Paula Badosa Gibert.

Karman failed to stretch the American Brady and lost in straight sets ... Brady ran away with the first set and won it without dropping a single game ... In the second set, Karam tried to fight and had a breakpoint on Brady's serve in the 8th game at 4-3 ... Brady broke Karman in the 11th game and held her service game after converting the 4th match point ... Karman wen to the grand slam qualifying with zero match practice after her training stint ... Our player needs to plan their schedule more logically with mixing training with proper match practice before the big tournament.


At $590K Sydney International 2019, Australia

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 26 46

Rohan and Divij lost in straight sets against Dodig and Roger-Vasselin.

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

[R2] (11) Sumit Nagal (IND,340) bt N. Sriram Balaji (IND,401) 76(0) 76(6)

[R3] (11) Sumit Nagal (IND,340) vs (5) Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,294)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) bt N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) 63 75

Sumit needed two tie-breaks to overcome the challenge of Bala ... Both players failed to break other's serve but Bala created more chances ... He had a 6 breakpoints, 3 each in both sets, and Sumit had a couple of chances ... But Sumit played better tie-break, he won the first tie-break without losing a single point ... In the second set, he was two set points down at 4-6, but he won next 4 points including winning 2 points on Bala's serve ... Next, Sumit is facing an experienced Tsung-Hua Yang.

The top-seed Lee and Miguel scored straight sets win over Bala and Arjun in the first round.

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