Monday, July 15, 2019

Tennis News

At $652K Hall of Fame Open 2019, Newport, USA

[Q2] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,134) bt Yuichi Sugita (JPN,253) 64 67(6) 63

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,89) l Marcel Granollers (ESP,98) 26 26
[R1] (Q) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,134) vs Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR,145)

Doubles
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Ze Zhang (CHN) 67(3) 67(10)

After a long time, a really good win for Ram against the former top-40 player, Yuichi Sugita ... In the first set, Ram took a crucial break in the 10th game for winning the set ... In the second set tie-break, Ram missed a couple of match points at 6-4 and 6-5 ... In the final set, Ram broke Sugita in the 3rd game, 2-1, to take a lead ... He again broke Sugita when he was serving for staying in the match at 5-3 and completed the win ... In the first round, he is facing Sergiy Stakhovsky.

Prajnesh's struggle continues on the grass court as he lost a one-sided match against Granollers in his last match of the grass court season.

Jeevan and Purav r going through a mini-slump ... Here also, they lost in 2 tight tie-breaks against a Chinese pair.


At $135K+H Nur-Sultan Challenger 2019, Kazakhstan

[R1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,468) bt (ITF) Sanjar Fayziev (UZB,438) 62 62

[R2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,468) vs (10) Matteo Viola (ITA,247)

Sid is into the second round with a dominating win over a higher ranked local player, Sanjar Fayziev ... Next, he is facing an Italian veteran, Matteo Viola.

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