Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Tennis News

At $623K Hall of Fame Open 2018, London, Great Britain

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,161) bt (Q) Victor Estrella Burgos (DOM,198) 64 61

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,161) vs (8) Denis Kudla (USA,86)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) bt Ruben Bemelmans (BEL)/ Denis Kudla (USA) 75 64

RamK started with straight sets win over veteran Estrella Burgos in straight sets ... Next, he is facing the 8th seed Denis Kudla.

Purav-Ken started with a good win against Bemelmans and Kudla.


At $125K Astana Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan

[R1] (LL) Arjun Kadhe (IND,361) bt (LL) Dzmitry Zhyrmont (BLR,422) 62 3-3 retd.

[R2] (Q) Saketh Myneni (IND,357) vs (1) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS,105)
[R2] (LL) Arjun Kadhe (IND,361) vs (WC) Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ,283)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) l Ivan Gakhov (RUS)/ Roman Safiullin (RUS) 26 26

Arjun got entry as a lucky-loser and luckily he faced another lucky loser ... After winning the first set easily Ajun struggled in the second, but his opponent retired after the 6th game ... In the second round, Arjun is facing an experienced Nedovyesov ... And Saki is facing former top-10 player Mikhail Youzhny.

A poor result for Saki and Toshihide as the top-seeds ... They lost in the straight sets against Russian pair.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Purav is not playing with Fabrice Martin, but with Ken Skupski.

Jay said...

Thanks, my bad ... Corrected my mistake.

Jay

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