Sunday, September 01, 2019

Tennis News

At US Open 2019, New York, U.S.A.

Doubles
[R3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Denis Shapovalov (CAN) l (15) Jamie Murray (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 36 46

Mixed Doubles
[R2] Abigail Spears (USA)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Raquel Atawo (USA)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) 57 67(4)

Rohan lost his both matches and with that Indian challenge got over from this US Open ... In the doubles, Murray and Skupski scored a comfortable win over Rohan and Shapo ... In mixed doubles, Rohan with Abigail lost in a close match against Martin and Atawo.

At $54K+H Baotou Challenger 2019, China

Singles Final
(13) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,285) l (1) James Duckworth (AUS,131) 46 36

Doubles Final
Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/ Sasikumar Mukund (IND) l (2) Ji Sung Nam (KOR)/ Min-Kyu Song (KOR) 67(3) 26

Mukund ended runner-up in the singles and the doubles ... Still, a terrific performance from him in this challenger ... This performance will help him to enter first-time in the top-250 in the singles ranking.

In the singles final, Duckworth gave a clinical performance as taking crucial breaks in both sets ... In the first set, he broke Mukund in the 10th game for winning the set ... In the second set also, he took an early break and kept that advantage for winning the match ... In the doubles final, Mukund and Gabashvili lost the first set in tie-break ... Afterward, Mukund must be tired after playing so many matches as he and Gabashvili lost the second set easily.


At $162.5K+H Jinan Challenger 2019, China

[R1] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,89) bye
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,249) vs Tak Khunn Wang (FRA,333)
[R1] Sasikumar Mukund (IND,285) vs Shuichi Sekiguchi (JPN,304)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Steven Diez (CAN)/ Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)
[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Shintaro Imai (JPN)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN)
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Hiroki Moriya (JPN)/ Goncalo Oliveira (POR)

Prajnesh is playing in a big Chinese challenger ... He is the top-seed and can meet Saki in the second round if Saki wins his first-round match ... Mukund is facing Sekiguchi in the first round.

In the doubles, all Indians r in the top-draw ... Divij is the top-seed with his Australian partner, Matthew Ebden ... They r playing Diez and Lopez Perez ... Jeevan and Saki r the 3rd seeds and they r playing against a Japanese pair ... Bala and Vishnu r facing Moriya and Oliveira.


At €137.5K+H Genova Challenger 2019, Italy

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,190) vs (WC) Giulio Zeppieri (ITA,470)

Doubles
[R1] Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Attila Balazs (HUN)/ Fernando Romboli (BRA)

After his terrific performance in the US Open, Sumit is back on the challenger grinding ... He plays a big Genova challenger and facing a local wild-card teenager.
In the doubles, Purav is playing with Rameez and they r facing Balazs and Romboli in the first round.

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