Saturday, February 09, 2019

Tennis News

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

India l Korea 1-2

[S1] Mahak Jain (IND,518) l Na-Ri Kim (KOR,593) 26 63 16
[S2] Ankita Raina (IND,165) bt Sunam Jeong (KOR,582) 63 63
[D] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) l Su Jeong Jang (KOR)/ Na-Ri Kim (KOR) 46 46

India finished in the 4th position in their group with only win against Thailand ... In their last Pool match, the Indians girl lost against the Korean girls ... Karman was inured, so our non-playing captain, Vishal Uppal, gave Mahak Jain a debut ... But Mahak lost against an experienced Korean girl, Na-Ri Kim ... In the second match, Ankita comfortably won against Korean Jeong ... In the doubles, pairing of Ankita and Prarthana lost against the Koreans in straight sets.

At € 586K Sofia Open 2019, Bulgaria

[SF] (3) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) 67(3) 36

Rohan and Divij lost in straight sets against Rungkat and Hsieh.

At $54K+H Chennai Challenger 2019, India

[SF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,102) l Andrew Harris (AUS,347) 46 63 06
[SF] (16) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,293) l Corentin Moutet (FRA,145) 63 46 26

Mukund gave fighting performance against #NextGen French guy, Corentin Moutet ... He won the first set but after that struggled with his game and Moutet took advantage of it for winning next two sets.
A surprising loss for Prajnesh against Andrew Harris ... After losing the first set Prajnesh tried fightback after winning the second ... But he struggled in the final set as his service wasn't working and committed load of unforced errors ... A bad day for Indians.

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