Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Tennis News

At $100K ITF Women Tournament 2019, Surbiton, Great Britain (Grass)

[Q1] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,170) bt Myrtille Georges (FRA,234) 76(6) 61
[Q2] (5) Ankita Raina (IND,170) bt Sabine Lisicki (GER,297) 63 61

[R1] (Q) Ankita Raina (IND,170) vs (WC) Katy Dunne (GBR,262)

Ankita started her grass court season with a bang ... She played 2 qualifying matches in a day ... In the first qualifying round, she defeated a Frenchwoman Myrtille Georges ... Next, she faced a former Wimbledon finalist and former WR #12 Sabine Lisicki ... Ankita showed dominating performance against Lisicki and won the match losing only 4 games ... In the first round, she is facing a British wild-card player, Katy Dunne.

At €137K+H Surbiton Challenger 2019, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,144) bt Tobias Kamke (GER,255) 63 36 61

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,144) vs (15) Matthias Bachinger (GER,126)

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jamie Cerretani (USA) vs (1) Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Ben McLachlan (JPN)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Soonwoo Kwon (KOR)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)
[R1] (2) Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (WC) Daniel Evans (GBR)/ Lloyd Glasspool (GBR)

Ram started with a win in his first grass court season match ... He defeated an experienced German, Tobias Kamke, in three sets ... Next, he is facing a German top-130 player, Matthias Bachinger.

In the doubles, Divij and Marcelo r the 2nd seeds and they r facing a British wild-card pair ... Jeevan is back with Purav and they r facing Ram and Kwon ... Bala is playing with an experienced Cerretani, but having a tough match against the top-seeds.


At €69K+H Poznan Challenger 2019, Poland

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,280) bt Constant Lestienne (FRA,192) 63 57 63

[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,280) vs (13) Alessandro Giannessi (ITA,164)

An excellent win by Sumit against the top-200 Frenchman, Lestienne, in three sets ... Next, another tough match against the top-175 Italian, Alessandro Giannessi.

At €92K+H Prostejov Challenger 2019, Czech Republic

[R1] Nikola Cacic (SRB)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (2) Denys Molchanov (UKR)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK) 26 64 8-10

Vishnu and his partner Nikola stretched the 2nd seeds till the match tie-break ... In the MTB, they were leading 7-6 but failed to complete the win.

At $81K+H Little Rock Challenger 2019, U.S.A.

[Q1] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND,399) l Orlando Luz (BRA,457) 46 46

Doubles
[R1] (4) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Volodoymyr Uzhylovskyi (UKR) l (PR) Zhe Li (CHN)/ Dudi Sela (ISR) 26 57

After losing in the singles qualifying, Arjun played in the doubles in this US challenger ... He was the 4th seed with his Ukrainian partner and they faced Dudi Sela and Zhe Li in the first round ... Sela and Li defeated them comfortably in straight sets.

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