Thursday, November 14, 2019

Tennis News

At Group 1 Asia/ Oceania - 1st Round 2019,

Indian Team: Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Saketh Myneni, Rohan Bopanna and Leander Paes
Reserves: Sasikumar Mukund, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Siddharth Rawat
Non-playing Captain: Rohit Rajpal

The team is announced for the Pakistan tie ... Leander is back in the team with Rohan and in the singles, Saki joins Ram and Sumit.

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

[QF] (3) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Bibiane Schoofs (NED) l Ya-Hsuan Lee (TPE)/ Fang-Hsien Wu (TPE) 63 36 9-11
[QF] Isabella Shinikova (BUL)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) l I-Hsuan Cho (TPE)/ Yi-Tsen Cho (TPE) 36 46

Prarthana and Isabella lost in straight-sets against a local pair ... Ankita and Schoofs also failed to overcome a Taipei pair after winning the first set.

At $54K+H Pune Challenger 2019, India

[R3] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,95) vs (14) Tim Van Rijthoven (NED,324) 64 57 36
[R3] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,199) bt (12) Cem Ilkel (TUR,273) 63 64
[R3] (3) Sumit Nagal (IND,127) bt (13) Ivan Nedelko (RUS,323) 2-0 retd.
[R3] (8) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,250) bt Ergi Kirkin (TUR,545) 60 62
[R3] Manish Sureshkumar (IND,748) l (2) James Duckworth (AUS,111) 16 26

[QF] (3) Sumit Nagal (IND,127) vs (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,199)
[QF] (8) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,250) vs (2) James Duckworth (AUS,111)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt (WC) Anvit Bendre (IND)/ Parikshit Somani (IND) 62 64

[QF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Aziz Dougaz (TUN)/ Calvin Hemery (FRA)
[QF] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) bt Bogdan Bobrov (RUS)/ Ivan Nedelko (RUS) 64 46 16-14
[QF] (2) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt Steven Diez (CAN)/ Roberto Ortega-Olmedo (ESP) 36 62 10-4

[SF] (2) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND)
PRajnesh lost after winning the first set against a Dutch guy Van Rijthoven and frankly speaking result doesn't matter ... I really salute his willpower to come here and play after his father demised only 4 days back ... Salute you Prajnesh for your grittiness for showing here despite a tragedy at home.
Ram scored a confident win over Ilkel ... In the quarters, he is facing Sumit, who received a walkover as his Russian opponent retired in the 3rd game.
Mukund also scored a comfortable win over Kirkin ... Next, he is facing the 2nd seed Duckworth, who comfortably defeated Manish.

In the doubles, Arjun and Saki scored a hard-fought win in the match tie-break which was 26 pts. long ... Next, they r facing the 2nd seed Vishnu and Matsui, who dominated the match after losing the first set against Diez and Ortega-Olmedo.
Purav and Ram started with a comfortable win ... Next, they r facing VSP and Klein.

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