Thursday, January 30, 2020

Tennis News

At the Australian Open 2020, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[QF] Nadiia Kichenok (UKR)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l (5) Nikola Mektić (CRO)/ Barbora Krejčíková (CZE) 06 26

Rohan and Nadiia were blown away by the 5th seeded Mektić and Krejčíková.

At €46.6K+H Quimper Challenger 2020, France

[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt (Alt) Altug Celikbilek (TUR)/ Cem Ilkel (TUR) 64 57 11-9
[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) bt Zdenek Kolar (CZE)/ Szymon Walkow (POL) 64 75

[SF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) vs Ivan Sabanov (CRO)/ Matej Sabanov (CRO)

Purav and Adil r in the semis with a straight-sets win over Walkow and Kolar and will face Sabanov twins ... Before that in the first round, an alternate Turkish pair stretched Purav and Adil to the match tie-break.

At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2020, Nonthaburi, Thailand

[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,171) bt Channel Simmonds (RSA,351) 61 61
[R1] Riya Bhatia (IND,369) l (Q) Kai-Chen Chang (TPE,601) 26 16

[R2] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,171) bt Nicoleta-Catalina Dascalu (ROM,280) 76(1) 62

[QF] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,171) vs Simona Waltert (SUI,279)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Bibiane Schoofs (NED) bt Miyabi Inoue (JPN)/ Jia-Qi Kang (CHN) 64 75
[QF] (1) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Bibiane Schoofs (NED) bt Moyuka Uchijima (JPN)/ Ying Zhang (CHN) 63 26 10-7

[SF] (1) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Bibiane Schoofs (NED) vs (4) Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB)/ Nicoleta-Catalina Dascalu (ROU)

Ankita is playing in Thailand, she started with back to back wins over good players ... In the quarters, she is facing a Swiss girl, Simona Waltert.
In the doubles, Ankita is playing with a Dutch partner, Bibiane Schoofs ... They scored a couple of wins over Chinese-Japanese pairs ... Next, they r facing the 4th seed Dascalu and Amanmuradova.

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