Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Tennis News

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

[R1] (Q) Ankita Raina (IND,170) l (WC) Katy Dunne (GBR,262) 36 36

Ankita failed to repeat her qualifying performance and lost easily against Katy Dunne.

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

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,144) l (15) Matthias Bachinger (GER,126) 64 46 36

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jamie Cerretani (USA) l (1) Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Ben McLachlan (JPN) 36 16
[R1] Soonwoo Kwon (KOR)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) 64 63
[R1] (2) Marcelo Demoliner (BRA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l (WC) Daniel Evans (GBR)/ Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) 57 76(5) 8-10

[QF] Soonwoo Kwon (KOR)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (4) Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Artem Sitak (NZL)

Ram failed to convert his good start against an experienced Bachinger ... Ram won the first set but failed to keep momentum in the next two sets.

In the doubles, Ram scored a victory with his Korean partner Kwon ... They defeated a good pairing of Jeevan and Purav in straight sets ... Next Ram and Kwon will be facing the 4th seed Erlich and Sitak.
Divij-Marcelo lost in the match tie-break against the British pair in their first match on the grass ... Bala and Cerretani failed to challenge the top-seeds in their one-sided loss.


At €69K+H Poznan Challenger 2019, Poland

[R2] Sumit Nagal (IND,280) l (13) Alessandro Giannessi (ITA,164) 57 63 36

Sumit gave another excellent fighting performance against an in-form Alessandro Giannessi in three sets loss ... The last week, Giannessi won the Challenger title in Italy without losing a set, so Sumit really played well against him ... After losing the first set Sumit fought back to win the second ... But he failed to complete win in this long match.

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