Saturday, February 23, 2019

Tennis News

At $2.9M Dubai Tennis Championship 2019, UAE

[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,128) vs Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP,18)

Doubles
[Q1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Karim-Mohamed Maamoun (EGY)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) 46 62 10-6

[Q2] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Hubert Hurkacz (POL)/ Denis Kudla (USA)

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (WC) Leander Paes (IND)/ Benoit Paire (FRA)

In the singles, Ram has received a main draw wild card, but having tough math against experienced top-20 Spaniard, Roberto Bautista Agut.

Crap draw for the Indians in the doubles ... Rohan and Divij r facing Lee and Paire, the winner of this match can meet Rajeev Ram and his partner in the second round.

Jeevan and Purav started with a comeback win over the Egyptian pair after losing the first set ... In the final qualifying round, they r facing Kudla and Hurkacz, who defeated the top-seed pair in the first qualifying.


At $250K Abierto Mexicano TELCEL 2019, Acapulco, Mexico

[Q1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,207) l (7) Tereza Martincova (CZE,153) 67(5) 36

Karman gave a decent performance in her loss against the top-150 type Czech player Martincova.

At $54K+H Bangkok 1A Challenger 2019, Thailand

[SF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,97) l (15) James Duckworth (AUS,210) 67(2) 63 67(3)

Prajnesh lost in three sets against Duckworth ... He lost both tie-breaks convincingly as Duckworth served well in this match with 15 aces ... Only break in the match was taken by Prajnesh in the second set for winning it ... Prajnesh tried playing aggressively and was going for winners or taking extra risk for hitting flat and powerful baseline shots ... I feel, he is in transition for the ATP tournaments and practicing this game which can help him to be successful on the tour.

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