Thursday, May 02, 2019

Tennis News

At € 586K BMW Open Banc by FWU 2019, Munich, Germany

[QF] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Kevin Krawietz (GER)/ Andreas Mies (GER) 46 63 10-8

[SF] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Philipp Oswald (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO)

Divij and Demoliner scored a comeback win over a local German pair after losing the first set ... In the semis, they r facing Oswald and Pavic.

At $108K+H Seoul Challenger 2019, Korea

[R3] Saketh Myneni (IND,247) l Tung-Lin Wu (TPE,316) 46 57
[R3] (10) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,146) l Zhe Li (CHN,248) 46 76(5) 67(6)

Doubles
[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Brayden Schnur (CAN) bt (ITF) Ji Sung Nam (KOR)/ Min-Kyu Song (KOR) 63 57 10-6

[SF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Brayden Schnur (CAN) vs Ruben Bemelmans (BEL)/ Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)

Saki lost in straight sets against in-form youngster Tung-Lin Wu.
Ram lost in a marathon match against an experienced Chinese, Zhe Li ... Zhe won the first set but Ram fought back after winning the second set tie-break ... In the third set, Ram missed a couple of break points and Zhe completed win after winning a long tie-break.

Ram and Schnur r in the semis, they defeated a local ITF pair in the match tie-break ... They r facing Bemelmans and Stakhovsky.


At $54K+H Savannah Challenger 2019, Georgia, USA

[R3] Sumit Nagal (IND,332) bt (WC) Sebastian Korda (USA,408) 63 76(0)

[QF] Sumit Nagal (IND,332) vs (3) Corentin Moutet (FRA,126)

A good win despite some hiccups against talented Sebastian Korda ... Sumit needs to learn to avoid on-and-off patches in the match, as here Seb's inexperience helped Sumit to close this match in two sets ... Now, interesting to see how he fares against Moutet after his last week's loss against him from a winning position.

After winning the first set Sumit was cruising comfortably in the second with an early break, 3-0 ... From the 5th game, he stated committing a lot of unforced errors and he lost his serve in the 7th game, 4-3 but he broke Seb in the next game to lead 5-3 ... While serving for the match he again committed unforced errors with over-hitting or wrong selection of shots to lose the game, 5-4 ... Seb broke him in the 11th game to lead,5-6, Sumit took a medical timeout for a calf strain ... He broke Seb in the 12th game and dominated the tie-break for a win.

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