Saturday, April 20, 2019

Tennis News

At $162K+H Anning Challenger 2019, China

[SF] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,80) bt (3) Kamil Majchrzak (POL,130) 76(5) 67(3) 64

[F] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,80) vs (14) Jay Clarke (GBR,211)

Prajnesh is in the final with a very hard-fought win against Majchrzak in almost three hours long match ... Also with this win, he secures the direct entry in the Wimbledon.

In this match, Prajnesh struggled with his serve but still managed to overcome multiple breaks to beat Kamil ... In the first set, after sharing early break Prajnesh was serving for the set when Kamil double-faulted to give break at 6-5 ... But Prajnesh failed to hold, 6-all and he managed to win the tie-break ... In the second set also both shared a break but this time Kamil won the tie-break easily ... In the final set, Prajnesh took an early break in the 3rd game to lead 3-1, but Kamil broke back ... Prajnesh again broke Kamil and completed win after holding his serve ... In the final, he is facing a British youngster, Jay Clarke.


At $54K+H Nanchang Challenger 2019, China

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,404) vs (ITF) Yan Bai (CHN,358)
[R1] (4) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,157) bye
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,256) vs Zhizhen Zhang (CHN,355)
[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,265) vs Renta Tokuda (JPN,335)
[R1] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,80) bye

Prajnesh has decided to play one more week in China ... He and Ram have a bye in the first round ... Bala is facing a local player Bai ... Saki is also playing a local Chinese Zhang ... Mukund is having a Japanese challenge of Tokuda.

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