Sunday, July 15, 2018

Tennis News

At $623K Hall of Fame Open 2018, Newport, USA

[Q1] (3) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,163) l Alessandro Bega (ITA,310) 46 75 46

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,140) vs Qualifier

Doubles
[R1] Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs (1) Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS)
[R1] Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Luke Bambridge (GBR)/ Jonny O'Mara (GBR)
[R1] (3) Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Ruben Bemelmans (BEL)/ Denis Kudla (USA)
[R1] (2) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Jackson Withrow (USA) vs (WC) Martin Redlicki (USA)/ Evan Zhu (USA)

Prajnesh faced Italian Bega, but lost in straight sets ... After losing the first set Prajnesh was a break down in the second ... He tried fightback and won the second set but failed to keep momentum in the third ... In the main draw, RamK is waiting for a qualifier.

Big Indian contingent in the doubles, Divij is the 2nd seed with American Jackson Withrow and they r facing American wild-card pair ... Purav and Fabrice r the 3rd seed and they r facing Kudla and Bemelmans ... Lee is back on the court after completing family commitments ... He is playing with Cerretani and they r facing British pair ... Jeevan and Austin having a tough match against the top-seeds Monroe and Smith.


At $125K Astana Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan

[Q3] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND,357) bt (7) Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS,496) 46 63 64
[Q3] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND,364) l (8) Khumoyun Sultanov (UZB,583) 16 63 26

[R1] (2) Saketh Myneni (IND,357) vs Aldin Setkic (BIH,273)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs Ivan Gakhov (RUS)/ Roman Safiullin (RUS)
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) vs (4) Cam Ilkel (TUR)/ Roberto Ortega-Olmedo (ESP)

Saki qualified for the main draw with three sets win over Russian Konstantin Kravchuk ... But Arjun lost against local player Sultanov ... In the main draw, Saki is facing Setkic.

In the doubles, Saki is the top-seeds with Toshihide Matsui and they r facing Russian pair ... Arjun is back with Denis Yevseyev and they r facing the 4th seeds Ilkel and Ortega-Olmedo.

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