Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Tennis News

At €2.1M ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament 2020, Rotterdam, Netherlands

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Denis Shapovalov (CAN) bt John Peers (AUS)/ Michael Venus (NZL) 76(0) 67(5) 10-8

[QF] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Denis Shapovalov (CAN) vs (4) Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU)

A tight hard-fought win for Rohan and Shapo in the match tie-break ... Next, they r facing the 4th seed Rojer and Tecau.

At $252K GSB Thailand Open 2020, Hua Hin, Thailand

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,198) l Katarzyna Kawa (POL,127) 63 06 16

Kawa dominated the last 2 sets as Ankita managed to win a single game, but before that Ankita managed to win the first set ... I hope, not any injury issue as she lost last 10 games in a row.

At $162.5K Bengaluru Challenger 2020, Karnataka, India

[R1] (Q) Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (IND,1097) bt Daniel Masur (GER,253) 75 63
[R1] (Alt) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,664) l Benjamin Bonzi (FRA,368) 26 36
[R1] (Q) Julian Ocleppo (ITA,391) l (Q) Anirudh Chandrasekhar (IND,1057) 16 26

[R2] Sasikumar Mukund (IND,263) l (13) Ilya Ivashka (BLR,148) 57 36
[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,406) bt (6) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,111) 63 63
[R2] (WC) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,1105) bt (16) Lukas Rosol (CZE,168) 64 26 63
[R2] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND,125) bt Malek Jaziri (TUN,242) 60 64
[R2] (17) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,182) vs (Q) Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (IND,1097)
[R2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,479) vs (LL) Rishi Reddy (IND,UNR)
[R2] (7) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,122) vs (Alt) Sebastian Fanselow (GER,609)

[R3] Saketh Myneni (IND,406) vs (9) Thomas Fabbiano (ITA,133)
[R3] (WC) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,1105) vs (3) Yuichi Sugita (JPN,82)
[R3] (8) Sumit Nagal (IND,125) vs (11) Blaz Rola (SLO,149)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (1) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 36 67(6)
[R1] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) bt (WC) SD Prajwal Dev (IND)/ Adil Kalyanpur (IND) 62 62
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Frederico Ferreira Silva (POR)/ Nikola Milojevic (SRB) 76(1) 57 8-10

[QF] (4) Purav Raja (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Frederico Ferreira Silva (POR)/ Nikola Milojevic (SRB)

Excellent performances from Indians continue in this challenger ... Niki produced the biggest upset beating a former top-30 Lukas Rosol in 3 sets ... Next, he is facing the top-90 Japanese, Yuichi Sugita ... Saki also continues with his terrific performance and defeated Evgeny Donskoy comfortably ... He was down 1-3 in the first set and from that, he won 11 games from the next 15 games ... Next, he is facing an Italian Thomas Fabbiano ... Sumit also in the third round with a straight-sets win ... Next, he is facing a Slovanian Blaz Rola ... Another surprising winner was Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam, who defeated a German Daniel Masur in straight sets ... In the second round, he is facing Ram.

In the doubles, expected winning start for Purav and Ram ... But a very close loss of Jeevan and Bala in the match tie-break ... Vishnu and VSP also lost against the top-seed pair.

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