Sunday, June 09, 2019

Tennis News

At $250K Nature Valley Open 2019, Nottingham, Great Britain (Grass)

[Q1] (8) Ankita Raina (IND,170) bt Kai-Lin Zhang (CHN,204) 63 retd.

[Q2] (8) Ankita Raina (IND,170) l Ellen Perez (AUS,207) 16 63 36

Ankita lost in the final qualifying round against an Aussie, Ellen Perez, in three sets ... After losing the first set easily Ankita tried fightback and won the second set ... But she failed to keep momentum in the third to lose the match ... Before that, she defeated Kai-Lin, when she retired from the match after losing the first set.

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

Doubles Final
Soonwoo Kwon (KOR)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l (1) Marcel Granollers (ESP)/ Ben McLachlan (JPN) 64 36 2-10

Ram and Soonwoo lost in the final after winning the first set ... The top-seed pairing of Granollers and McLachlan dominated the final after losing the first set.

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

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,223) vs Mats Moraing (GER,219)
[R1] (11) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,143) bye

Doubles
[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Daniel Evans (GBR)/ Lloyd Glasspool (GBR)
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jamie Cerretani (USA) vs (WC) Evan Hoyt (GBR)/ Luke Johnson (GBR)
[R1] Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (3) Ken Skupski (GBR)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS)

Good to see Saki is playing on the grass before Wimbledon qualifying ... He is facing a similar ranked German, Mats Moraing and Ram is having a bye as a seeded player.

In the doubles, tough matches for our pairs ... Jeevan and Purav are getting a big grass court match practice against the in-form British pair ... Bala and Cerretani r facing another British wild-card pair ... Lee is playing with Junaid and they r facing the 3rd seed, Ken Skupski and John-Patrick Smith.


At € 92K+H Lyon Challenger 2019, France

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,280) vs (Alt) Hugo Nys (MON,337)

Sumit is playing in the French challenger and facing Hugo Nys in the first round.

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