Sunday, July 22, 2018

Tennis News

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

Singles Final
Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,161) l (3) Steve Johnson (USA,48) 57 63 26

Our wait for finding Indian singles champion on the tour waits as RamK lost in the Newport final after giving a fighting performance ... RamK failed to take advantage of poor first serve percentage (43%) of Steve and lost the first set on a single break ... Steve took a crucial break in the 11th game ... RamK fought back in the second set, he broke Steve in the 4th game to lead 4-1 ... After that, both players held their respective service games so RamK kept that advantage for winning the set ... A bad start in the third set as RamK had poor service game and Steve broke him to take a 0-2 lead ... After that Steve raised his game and RamK struggled with his first serve ... Steve again broke RamK in the 8th game when RamK was serving for staying in the match for completing the win.

At $668K Atlanta Open 2018, Georgia, USA

[Q2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,184) bt Tommy Paul (USA,214) 63 63

[R1] (SE) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,161) vs Taylor Fritz (USA,65)
[R1] (Q) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,184) vs Lukas Lacko (SVK,71)


Doubles
[R1] (1) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) vs Romain Arneodo (MON)/ Jeremy Chardy (FRA)
[R1] Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Mike Bryan (USA)/ Frances Tiafoe (USA)
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Ken Skupski (GBR) vs Ricardas Berankis (LTU)/ Malek Jaziri (TUN)

Prajnesh qualifies for the main draw with a comfortable win over American Tommy Paul ... In the main draw, he is facing top-75 Lukas Lacko.

RamK receives Special Exemption after reaching the final of Newport ... In the first round, he is facing young American Taylor Fritz.

In the doubles, Divij is back with Artem and they r the top-seeds ... They r facing Chardy and Arneodo in the first round ... Purav and Ken r facing Berankis and Jaziri ... Lee and Cerretani r facing Bryan and Tiafoe.


At €501K Swiss Open 2018, Gstaad, Switzerland

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Federico Delbonis (ARG)/ Guido Pella (ARG)
[R1] Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs (2) Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/ Joao Sousa (POR)

In Swiss open, Bala and Vishnu r facing Argentine pair ... Jeevan-Austin r playing against the 2nd seeds Gonzalez-Sousa.

At $250K Jiangxi Open 2018, GNanchang, China

[Q2] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,216) bt (8) Valeria Savinykh (RUS,288) 62 63

[R1] (Q) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,216) vs Jia-Jing Lu (CHN,175)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Jacqueline Cako (USA)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs (WC) Xuliu Sun (CHN)/ Wushuang Zheng (CHN)
[R1] Sabina Sharipova (UZB)/ Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) vs Xinyu Jiang (CHN)/ Qianhui Tang (CHN)
[R1] Jia-Jing Lu (CHN)/ Ankita Raina (IND) vs Momoko Kobori (JPN)/ Ayano Shimizu (JPN)

Karman qualifies for the main draw with a comfortable straight sets win against former top-100 Russian player, Valeria Savinykh ... She won the first set with a double break and won the second set with a single break ... In this match despite only 50% first serve percentage she didn't face a single break point ... In the main draw, Karman has a decent draw, she is facing Chinese girl Jia-Jing Lu.

In the doubles, our three players r playing with different partners ... Prarthana is the third seeds with American Jacqueline Cako and they r playing against local wild-card pair ... Karman is playing with Sabina Sharipova and they r also playing Chinese pair ... Ankita is partnering Chinese Jia-Jing Lu and they r facing Japanese pair.


At $75K Binghamton Challenger 2018, New York, USA

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,357) vs Marcelo Tomas Barrios Vera (CHI,348)

Saki is playing in Binghamton Challenger ... In the first round, he is facing similar ranked young Chilean player.

At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia

Singles Final
(8) Mahak Jain (IND,838) l (Q) Arianne Hartono (NED,UNR) 46 16

The in-form current NCAA champion Arianne Hartono proved too strong for Mahak in the final.

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