Sunday, September 29, 2019

Tennis News

At $2M Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2019, Tokyo

[FQ] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) bt (2) Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 76(4) 76(5)

[R1] (Q) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) vs (WC) Luke Bambridge (GBR)/ Ben McLachlan (JPN)

Divij and Artem qualify for the main draw ... They defeated Aisam and Gonzalez in the 2 tie-breaks ... They r facing Bambridge and McLachlan, who defeated them in the first round of the Zhuhai Championships.

At $54K+H Buenos Aires Challenger 2019, Argentina

P.C. to ITD FB page
Singles Final
(7) Sumit Nagal (IND,161) bt (8) Facundo Bagnis (ARG,166) 64 62

Sumit lifts his second challenger title, his first title was in Bangalore almost 2 yrs. before ... He defeated a similar ranked Facundo Bagnis in straight sets ... With this, he becomes the first Indian to win the title on the South American clay.

A high-quality clay court tennis played by both players ... Both players maintained level up and were retrieving and hitting exceptional shots in this high standard match ... In the first set, Sumit took a crucial break in the 9th game and then held his serve comfortably for winning the first set ... In the second set, Sumit took advantage of an error-prone game of Bagnis and broke him in the 5th game, 3-2 ... Sumit again broke Bagnis in the 7th game after trading 5 deuces and converted the 3rd brek point, 5-2 ... Sumit comfortably held for completing the win in 1 hour and 38 mins.


At $54K+H Campinas Challenger 2019, Brazil

[R1] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND,161) bye

Sumit is in the top-draw in the Campinas challenger.

At €46.6K+H Barcelona Challenger 2019, Spain (Clay)

[R1] (15) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,170) bye

Doubles
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Sergio Martos Gornes (ESP) vs (3) Tomislav Brkic (BIH)/ Ante Pavic (CRO)

Ram is back on the clay and playing in the Barcelona challenger ... He has received a bye as a seeded player and in the doubles, he is playing with a Spaniard Sergio Martos Gorges and they r facing the 3rd seed pair.

At $54K+H Nur-Sultan 2 Challenger 2019, Kazakhstan

[R1] (14) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,233) bye

Mukund is playing in the Kazakh challenger ... As a seeded player, he has received a bye.

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