Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Tennis News

At $2.95M Dubai Duty-Free Tennis Championships 2020, UAE

[R1] (Q) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,134) l (Q) Dennis Novak (AUT,95) 46 36

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (2) Ivan Dodig(CRO)/ Filip Polasek (SVK) 64 63

[QF] (WC) Matthew Ebden (AUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (Q) Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ Jan-Lennard Struff (GER)

I was hoping better results from Prajnesh as he lost in straight-sets against Novak.

Other hands, an excellent upset win from Lee and Ebden against the 2nd seed Dodig and Polasek ... Next, they r having a tricky match against Kontinen and Struff.


At $2.9M Qatar Total Open 2020, Doha, Qatar

[R1] (WC) Caroline Garcia (FRA)/ Sania Mirza (IND) l (WC) Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR)/ Laura Siegemund (GER) 46 57

Sania and Caroline lost in straight sets against another wildcard pair.

At $674K Chile Dove Men+Care Open 2020, Santiago, Chile (Clay)

[R1] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) bt Thiago Monteiro (BRA)/ Fernando Romboli (BRA) 76(5) 76(2)

[QF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) vs Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP)/ Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (ESP)

Divij and Artem required 2 tie-breaks to beat a Brazilian pair ... Next, they r facing the Spanish pair for a place in the semis.

At €92K+H Pau Challenger 2020, France

[R2] (3) Sumit Nagal (IND,122) l Hugo Grenier (FRA,250) 16 62 36
[R2] Sasikumar Mukund (IND,279) l (8) Lukas Lacko (SVK,168) 46 67(3)

A very lackluster performance by Sumit in this loss ... He played error-prone game and gave easy points to Grenier ... After a really bad first set Sumit controlled his unforced errors to win the second set ... But he again struggled in the third to lose this match.

MuKund gave a decent fighting performance against Lacko in his straight sets loss.


At $54K+H Columbus Challenger 2020, Ohio, USA

[R1] (9) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,180) vs (Q) Zhe Li (CHN,208)

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Alexander Cozbinov (MDA)/ Denis Istomin (UZB) 63 64

Ram is facing Zhe Li in the second round.
Bala and Jeevan scored straight sets win over Istomin and Cozbinov.

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