Tennis News

At € 586K Hungarian Open 2019, Budapest, Hungary

[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) bt (Alt) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ John Millman (AUS) 63 75
[R1] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 63 46 11-9

[QF] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Dominic Inglot (GBR) vs (Alt) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Ernests Gulbis (LAT)
[QF] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (3) Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR)

Divij and Demoliner started with a good upset win over an experienced pairing of Aisam and Lindstedt in the match tie-break ... Next, they r facing the 3rd seeds British pair.
Rohan and Inglot started with straight sets win over Millman and Fabbiano ... Next, they r facing another alternate pairing of Begemann and Gulbis

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At $125K WTA Anning 2019, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,178) bt (3) Samantha Stosur (AUS,77) 75 26 75

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,178) vs Kai-Lin Zhang (CHN,209)

A huge win for Ankita against the former top-5 player, Samantha Stosur ... This was her biggest win of the career in this almost 3 hours long match ... Both players were breaking others on a regular basis as Ankita converted 7 break point chances from 16 break points and Stosur also broke her 7 times from 18 chances ... Ankita played important points better as she won the first set ... In the second Stosur dominated and won with a double break advantage ... Ankita recovered and stayed close with Stosur and won the final set for entering into the next round ... Next, she is facing a local player, Kai-Lin Zhang.

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At $54K+H Nanchang Challenger 2019, China

[R2] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,404) l (11) Go Soeda (JPN,207) 46 46
[R2] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,151) bt (WC) Rigele Te (CHN,412) 63 62
[R2] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,573) l Andrew Harris (AUS,291) 26 36

[R3] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,151) vs (16) Kaichi Uchida (JPN,243)

Doubles
[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jamie Cerretani (USA) bt Rigele Te (CHN)/ Di Wu (CHN) 62 64
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (2) Sander Arends (NED)/ Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (AUT) 46 57

[QF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jamie Cerretani (USA) vs Alex Bolt (AUS)/ Akira Santillan (AUS)

Ram scored an expected comfortable win over Rigele Te ... Next, he is facing a Japanese Kaichi Uchida
In the singles, expected losses of Bala and Vishnu against regular singles players Soeda and Harris.

In the doubles, a comfortable winning start for Bala and Cerretani against a Chinese pair ... Next, they r facing the Aussie pairing Santillan and Bolt.

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At $54K+H Tallahassee Challenger 2019, Florida, USA

[R1] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Guilherme Clezar (BRA)/ Marc Polmans (AUS) 67(6) 46

Jeevan and Purav r struggling on the American clay ... They lost as the top-seeds in the first round in Tallahassee Challenger.