Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Tennis News

At $54K+H Gwangju Challenger 2019, Korea

[R2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,299) bt (Alt) Yusuke Takahashi (JPN,373) 61 64
[R2] (16) Saketh Myneni (IND,246) vs Akira Santillan (AUS,251)

[R3] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,299) vs (13) Zhe Li (CHN,245)

Doubles
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Tung-Lin Wu (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 62 63
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jonathan Erlich (ISR) bt Akira Santillan (AUS)/ Luke Saville (AUS) 63 61

A good day at Gwangju as all Indian players win their respective matches ... Mukund scored a comfortable win over Takahashi ... Next, he is facing the top-250 Chinese veteran, Zhe Li ... Saki is facing a similar ranked Santillan in the second round.

In the doubles, Saki and his partner Shamasdin started with a comfortable win over a Taipei pair ... Bala and Erlich also started with a convincing win over an Aussie pair.


At $108K+H Heilbronn Challenger 2019, Germany

[R1] (WC) Tuna Altuna (TUR)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l Carlos Berlocq (ARG)/ Hugo Dellien (BOL) 64 36 5-10

VSP and Tuna lost in the match tie-break after winning the first set against an experienced pair.

At $54K+H Samarkand Challenger 2019, Kazakhstan

[R2] (15) Sumit Nagal (IND,303) bt Sadio Doumbia (FRA,374) 64 16 61

Doubles
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) l (1) Goncalo Oliveira (POR)/ Andrei Vasilevski (BLR) 46 63 6-10

Sumit required three sets against Doumbia for entering into the third round.

Arjun and Yevseyev lost in the match tie-break against the top-seeds.

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