Friday, June 28, 2019

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2019, London, Great Britain

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,94) vs (15) Milos Raonic (CAN,17)

Doubles
[R1] Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (13) Kevin Krawietz (GER)/ Andreas Mies (GER)
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Pablo Cuevas (URU) vs Marcus Daniell (NZL)/ Wesley Koolhof (NED)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS)
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Benoit Paire (FRA) vs Alexander Bublik (KAZ)/ Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ)

A tough match for Prajnesh, but Milos Raonic also coming out of long injury break ... He missed all clay season and played last 2 weeks on the grass ... He had good results, with wins over Tsonga and Cecchinato ... If Prajnesh manages to take Raonic to the 5th set then anything can happen considering Raonic's fitness issue ... A tall ask from me.

The doubles draw is out ... Tough matches for Divij, Jeevan and Purav ... Divij and Marcelo r facing a current French Open champions German pairing of Kevin Krawietz and Andreas Mies ... Purav and Jeevan r facing an Aussie pairing of Lleyton Hewitt and Jordan Thompson ... Rohan and Pablo r facing a pairing of Marcus Daniell and Wesley Koolhof ... Lee and Benoit r facing the Kazakh pair.


At $54K+H Milan Challenger 2019, Italy

[QF] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND,224) bt Aslan Karatsev (RUS,343) 64 76(4)

[SF] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND,224) vs Danilo Petrovic (SRB,285)

A tight two sets win for Sumit against Aslan ... Sumit won the first set, he was a break up at 4-1 but Aslan broke back to make it 4-all ... Sumit again broke him in the 10th game for winning the set ... In the second set, Sumit was a break down at 2-3 but he broke Aslan in the 6th game for 3-all ... Sumit again got broken in the 7th game and he fought back from 3-5 down ... He broke Aslan in the 10th game, when he was serving for the set, to make it 5-all ... Both players held their respective service games to take into the tie-break ... Sumit played control game for completing the win in two sets after comfortably winning the tie-break ... In the semis, Sumit is facing a Serbian giant, Danilo Petrovic.

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