Friday, November 15, 2019

Tennis News

At $54K+H Pune Challenger 2019, India

[QF] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,199) bt (3) Sumit Nagal (IND,127) 64 76(5)
[QF] (8) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,250) l (2) James Duckworth (AUS,111) 57 64 57

[SF] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,199) vs (2) James Duckworth (AUS,111)

Doubles
[QF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt Aziz Dougaz (TUN)/ Calvin Hemery (FRA) 63 64
[QF] (4) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND)/ Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) 62 63

[SF] (1) Purav Raja (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs (4) Brydan Klein (GBR)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)
[SF] (2) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Saketh Myneni (IND)

Ram scored a really good win over Sumit in a quality match ... In the first set, he broke Sumit in the 10th game for winning it ... In the second set, both players exchanged early breaks before going this set into the tie-break ... Ram completed win after winning the tie-break ... In the semis, he is facing Duckworth.
Mukund stretched Duckworth to fullest ... Mukund had his chances but he missed those with some inconsistent shot-making ... He broke James in the 9th game of the 2nd set and held his serve to take the match into the decider ... Both players held their respective service games till 5-all ... Mukund had 3 breakpoints on James's serve which he missed and James broke him in the 12th game for winning this match.

VSP and Klein enter into the semis with an easy win over Anirudh and Niki ... Next, they r facing the top-seed Purav and Ram, who also defeated Dougaz and Hemery in straight sets.


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

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l (1) Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Santiago Gozales (MEX) 26 67(4)

Bala and Jeevan lost in straight sets against the top-seed pairing of Erlich and Gonzales.

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