Thursday, June 20, 2019

Tennis News

At €137K+H Ilkley Challenger 2019, Great Britain

[QF] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Sander Arends (NED)/ David Pel (NED) 64 26 10-4
[QF] (2) Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Matt Reid (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 67(4) 76(3) 10-7

Jeevan and Purav r in the semis and will face Lee and Marcus ... They defeated a Dutch pair in the match tie-break.
Lee and Marcus scored a hard-fought comeback win over a tricky Aussie pair in the match tie-break.


At € 69K+H Bratislava Challenger 2019, Slovakia

[R3] (16) Sumit Nagal (IND,251) bt (1) Martin Klizan (SVK,56) 16 61 76(3)

[QF] (16) Sumit Nagal (IND,251) vs (5) Andrej Martin (SLO,126)

Sumit scores his biggest career win and first top-100 win ... He made a superb comeback to beat a WR #56 and a local favorite Martin Klizan ... In the first set, Sumit failed to hold his serve, he broke Klizan's serve once but got broken 4 times to lose the set ... Sumit made an excellent comeback in the second set ... After losing the 1st game he won next 6 games to win the set, breaking Klizan in the 3rd, 5th, and 7th games ... In the third set, he lost his serve in the 3rd game, 1-2, but broke Klizan in the next game, 2-all ... After that, both players held their respective service games ... Sumit controlled the tie-break from the start and completed an excellent win after winning it comfortably ... Next, he is facing an in-form Andrej Martin.

At $54K+H Fergana Challenger 2019, Uzbekistan

[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l (2) Nikola Cacic (SRB)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 57 36

Arjun and VSP lost in straight sets against the 2nd seeds.

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