Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Tennis News

At $125K ITF Women's Tournament 2019, Taipei, Chinese Taipei

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,185) l (3) Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS,108) 67(1) 16

Doubles
[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Bibiane Schoofs (NED) bt Susan Bandecchi (SUI)/ Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic (GER) 64 76(4)

[QF] (3) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Bibiane Schoofs (NED) vs Ya-Hsuan Lee (TPE)/ Fang-Hsien Wu (TPE)
[QF] Isabella Shinikova (BUL)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs I-Hsuan Cho (TPE)/ Yi-Tsen Cho (TPE)

Ankita stretched Diatchenko in the first set, but after losing the first set Ankita failed to challenge.

In the doubles, Ankita and Schoofs started with a win ... Next, Ankita and Prarthana r facing Taipei pairs with their respective partners.


At $54K+H Pune Challenger 2019, India

[R2] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,95) bt Chandril Sood (IND,1700) 61 63
[R2] (Q) Dalwinder Singh (IND,1699) l (14) Tim Van Rijthoven (NED,324) 36 16
[R2] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND,1180) l (7) Roberto Ortega-Olmedo (ESP,248) 36 26
[R2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,520) l (15) Brydan Klein (GBR,398) 16 63 46
[R2] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,199) bt Markos Kalovelonis (GRE,753) 63 64
[R2] (Alt) Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND,1438) l (12) Cem Ilkel (TUR,273) 26 16
[R2] (WC) Dhruv Sunish (IND,1040) l (13) Ivan Nedelko (RUS,323) 36 75 26
[R2] (3) Sumit Nagal (IND,127) bt (WC) Aryan Goveas (IND,867) 63 76(5)
[R2] (8) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,250) bt Toshihide Matsui (JPN,800) 62 63
[R2] (10) Saketh Myneni (IND,266) l Ergi Kirkin (TUR,545) 63 57 46
[R3] Manish Sureshkumar (IND,748) vs (2) James Duckworth (AUS,111)

[R3] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,95) vs (14) Tim Van Rijthoven (NED,324)
[R3] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,199) vs (12) Cem Ilkel (TUR,273)
[R3] (3) Sumit Nagal (IND,127) vs (13) Ivan Nedelko (RUS,323)
[R3] (8) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,250) vs Ergi Kirkin (TUR,545)
[R3] Manish Sureshkumar (IND,748) vs (2) James Duckworth (AUS,111)

Doubles
[R1] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) bt Sidharth Rawat (IND)/ Manish Sureshkumar (IND) 75 63
[R1] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt Danylo Kalenichenko (UKR)/ David Pichler (AUT) 63 36 10-5
[R1] (2) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Rio Noguchi (JPN)/ Yusuke Takahashi (JPN) 63 63

[QF] (4) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND)
[QF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Bogdan Bobrov (RUS)/ Ivan Nedelko (RUS)
[QF] (2) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Steven Diez (CAN)/ Roberto Ortega-Olmedo (ESP)

An expected win for our seeded players; Prajnesh, Ram, Sumit, and Mukund ... A gutsy performance by Prajnesh as he lost his father only 4 days back, but he still decided to participate.
These days Saki couldn't win 3 sets match and that happened here also ... Dhruv and Sid also gave fighting performance against their higher-ranked opponents.

Vishnu and Matsui started with a comfortable win ... Next, they r facing Diez and Ortega-Olmedo ... Arjun and Saki completed the win in the match tie-break, next, they r facing a Russian pair ... Niki and Anirudh scored a win over their senior compatriot Manish and Sid ... Next, they r facing VSP and Klein.


At $164.4K+H Houston Challenger 2019, Texas, USA

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Luca Margaroli (SUI)/ Andrea Vavassori (ITA) 63 46 10-7

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs (1) Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Santiago Gozales (MEX)

a hard-fought win for Bala and Jeevan against Margaroli and Vavassori ... Next, they r facing the top-seed pairing of Erlich and Gonzales.

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