Friday, April 12, 2019

Tennis News

At € 586K Grand Prix Hassan II 2019, Marrakech, Morocco

[SF] Leander Paes (IND)/ Benoit Paire (FRA) l Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Franko Skugor (CRO) 61 36 5-10

Lee and Benoit lost in the match tie-break against Melzer and Skugor after winning the first set ... Still, overall a decent week for Lee with Benoit.

At $162K+H Taiwan Santaizi Challenger 2019, Taipei, Chinese Taipei

[QF] (9) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,140) l (13) Soonwoo Kwon (KOR,164) 67(6) 36

Doubles
[QF] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jonathan Erlich (ISR) bt Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) 64 63

[SF] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jonathan Erlich (ISR) vs (1) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Chritopher Rungkat (INA)

Ram lost in straight sets in the quarters against Kwon ... This loss will bring down Ram outside the top-150 as he was defending lot of points as last year's runner-up.

Bala with Erlich scored straight sets win over Ram and Saki ... In the semis, they r facing the top-seeds Rungkat and Hsieh.


At $60K ITF Women's Tournament 2019, Istanbul, Turkey

[R2] (6) Ankita Raina (IND,194) bt (Q) Sofya Lansere (RUS,403) 64 61

[QF] (6) Ankita Raina (IND,194) vs Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR,258)

Doubles
[R1] (4) Valentini Grammatikopoulou (GRE)/ Ankita Raina (IND) l Greet Minnen (BEL)/ Pemra Ozgen (TUR) 57 46

Ankita in the quarters with straight sets win over a Russian qualifier ... Next, she is facing a local top-250 type Buyukakcay.

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