Friday, February 08, 2019

Tennis News

At The Fed Cup - the Asia-Oceania Group-1 2019, Astana, Kazakhstan

India l Kazakhstan 0-3

[S1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,211) l Zarina Diyas (KAZ,96)
[S2] Ankita Raina (IND,165) l Yulia Putintseva (KAZ,43) 16 67(4)
[D] Riya Bhatia (IND)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) l Anna Danilina (KAZ)/ Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 16 16

After their heroic against the Thai team, our players were tired as they were more than 5 hours on the court ... So wasn't expected any upset against the highly ranked Kazakh team ... Karman and Ankita both lost in straight sets against their respective higher ranked opponents ... Prarthana and Riya had a no chance in the doubles.

At € 586K Sofia Open 2019, Bulgaria

[QF] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Alexander Donski (BUL)/ Alexandar Lazarov (BUL) 63 61

[SF] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Nikola Mektic (CRO)/ Jurgen Melzer (AUT) 75 46 6-10
[SF] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA)

In the quarters, Rohan and Divij scored an expected comfortable win over a local wildcard pair ... Next, they r facing the pairing of Rungkat and Hsieh.
In the semis, Jeevan and Purav's run ended against Melzer and Mektic ... They started well and won the first set but failed to keep the momentum ... Melzer and Mektic recovered and won next two sets for completing the win.


At € 586K Open Sud de France 2019, Montpellier, France

[SF] Leander Paes (IND)/ Benoit Paire (FRA) l (1) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 36 67(3)

Lee and Paire lost in straight sets against the top seed Dodig and Roger-Vasselin ... Still, a good week for Lee with Benoit Paire.

At $135.4K+H Dallas Challenger Open 2019, Texas, USA

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Hans Hach Verdugo (MEX) l (WC) Marcos Giron (USA)/ Dennis Novikov (USA) 46 67(3)

Bala and Hach Verdugo lost in straight sets against the American wildcard pair.

At $54K+H Chennai Challenger 2019, India

[QF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,102) bt (7) James Duckworth (AUS,241) 64 63
[QF] (16) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,292) bt Brydan Klein (GBR,395) 62 36 76(3)

[SF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,102) vs Andrew Harris (AUS,347)
[SF] (16) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,293) vs Corentin Moutet (FRA,145)

Mukund continues with his terrific run and enters into his first challenger semi-final ... In the quarter-final, he scored a hard-fought win over an experienced Klein ... In the semis, he is facing #NextGen French guy, Corentin Moutet.
Prajnesh dominated Duckworth from the start ... After winning the first set he was in the control of the second from start ... At 5-2 while serving for the match Prajnesh got broken but he immediately broke Duckworth in the next game for completing the win ... Next, he is facing another Australian, Andrew Harris.

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