Tennis News

At $2.9M Dubai Tennis Championship 2019, UAE

[QF] (Q) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)/ Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 76(3) 67(5) 10-8

[SF] (Q) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Ben McLachlan (JPN)/ Jan-Lennard Struff (GER)

Jeevan and Purav scored another impressive win in a long match against the experienced Verdasco and Kohlschreiber ... Our pair won the first set in the tie-break but lost the second in the tie-break ... They recovered to win the match tie-break for entering into the semis of ATP 500 tournament ... In the semis, they r facing in-form German-Japanese pairing of Struff and McLachlan.

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At $25K ITF M25 Albury, Australia (Grass)

[R2] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND,392) l Matthew Romios (AUS,627) 36 60 46

Doubles
[QF] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jason Taylor (AUS) bt Calum Puttergill (AUS)/ Brandon Walkin (AUS) 64 75

[SF] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jason Taylor (AUS) vs Luke Jacob Gamble (USA)/ Colin Sinclair (NMI)

Arjun lost in the singles against the lower ranked local player.
In the doubles, he is in the semis with Taylor and they r facing Gamble and Sinclair.

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At ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol 2019, New Delhi, India

P.C. to issf-sports.org

10m Air Pistol Mixed Team
Gold - Manu Bhaker (IND)/ Saurabh Chaudhary (IND) 483.4 pts
Silver - Ranxin Jiang (CHN)/ Bowen Zhang (CHN) 477.7 pts
Bronze - Minjung Kim (KOR)/ Daehun Park (KOR) 418.8 pts

Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary won the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team match with more than 5 pts, the last final of this ISSF World Cup Stage ... In the final, Manu struggled with her nerves but other hand Saurabh gave another solid performance ... His shooting is on a different level ... Before that in the qualifying, Saurabh scored highest 393 pts and Manu managed 385 pts, their total of 778 pts equaled the qualifying world record and new qualifying junior world record ... Our other pairing of Heena Sidhu and Abhishek Verma finished on the 9th position with a total of 770 pts.

In the 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team event, our both pairs failed to reach into the final ... Anjum Moudgil and Ravi Kumar finished on the 7t position with 836.3 pts missing the final by 0.2 pts ... Apurvi Chandela and Deepak Kumar struggled to finish on the 25th position with 831.0 pts.

So with Saurabh's second Gold medal in the MXD with Manu, India finishes in the top position with the Hungarian team as both teams won 3 Gold medals.

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At $2.9M Dubai Tennis Championship 2019, UAE

[QF] (WC) Leander Paes (IND)/ Benoit Paire (FRA) l (4) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR) 16 36

The 4th seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury proved too strong for Lee and Paire.

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At $25K ITF M25 Albury, Australia (Grass)

[R1] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND,392) bt Alec Adamson (USA,ITF-466) 64 62

[R2] (3) Arjun Kadhe (IND,392) vs Matthew Romios (AUS,627)

Doubles
[R1] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jason Taylor (AUS) bt Jayden Court (AUS)/ Tom Evans (AUS) 63 75

[QF] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Jason Taylor (AUS) vs Calum Puttergill (AUS)/ Brandon Walkin (AUS)

Arjun is playing in the $25K tournament in Australia on the grass ... He started with straight sets win in the singles against American Adamson ... In the doubles also he and his Aussie partner started with straight sets win and facing another Aussie pair in the quarters.

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At $500K Men's PSA World Championship 2019, Union Station, Chicago, USA

[R1] Ramit Tandon (IND,58) l (6) Miguel Rodriguez (COL,7) 3-11, 6-11, 8-11 (34m)
[R1] Vikram Malhotra (IND,59) l Richie Fallows (ENG,57) 9-11, 8-11, 4-11 (28m)
[R1] (11) Saurav Ghosal (IND,11) bt Dimitri Steinmann (SUI,70) 11-3, 11-5, 11-3 (33m)

[R2] (11) Saurav Ghosal (IND,11) bt Lucas Serme (FRA,40) 13-11, 11-6, 11-8 (48m)

[R3] (11) Saurav Ghosal (IND,11) bt Joel Makin (WAL,19) 11-13, 11-7, 11-7, 14-12 (80m)

[QF] (11) Saurav Ghosal (IND,11) vs (3) Simon Rösner (GER,4)

Saurav Ghosal has reached his second quarterfinal at the World Championship ... In 2013, he narrowly lost against Ramy Ashour in the quarter-finals at the World Championship ... In the quarters, he is facing WR #4 German, Simon Rösner.

Before this in the third round, Saurav defeated the Welsh player, Joel Makin, after losing the first game in a close match ... Also, Ramit Tandon and Vikram Malhotra lost in the first round in their first World Championship matches.

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At $500K Women's PSA World Championship 2019, Union Station, Chicago, USA


[R1] (14) Joshna Chinappa (IND,14) bt Ineta Mackevica (LAT,64) 11-5, 11-3, 11-7 (24m)

[R2] (14) Joshna Chinappa (IND,14) l (18) Joey Chan (HKG,16) 10-12, 7-11, 7-11 (28m)

Joshna lost in the second round of the World Championship against the similar ranked Joey Chan in straight games.

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At ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol 2019, New Delhi, India

Another bad day for Indian shooters as they failed to grab the Olympic quota from 6 places available ... In the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men, Anish finished on the 5th position with 14 hits to miss the Olympic quota ... In the qualifying also, Anish finished on the 5th position with 588 pts ... Adarsh Singh on the 11th position with 581 pts and Arpit Goel finished on the 12th position with 580 pts ... In the 10m Air Pistol Women qualifying, Manu Bhaker finished on the 14 place and missed the final by a point as she scored 573 pts ... Anuradha finished on the 22nd position and Heena Sidhu finished on the 25th position with 571 pts ... In the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women qualifying, we had a poor outing ... Gaayathri Nithyanadam finished on the 36th position with 1163 pts and Sunidhi Chauhan finished on the 49th position with 1156 pts.

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At $2.9M Dubai Tennis Championship 2019, UAE

[R1] (Q) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (3) Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ John Peers (AUS) 06 64 10-8

[QF] (Q) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)/ Fernando Verdasco ESP
[QF] (WC) Leander Paes (IND)/ Benoit Paire (FRA) vs (4) Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Joe Salisbury (GBR)

Jeevan and Purav r making full use of their chances of playing on the tour ... In Dubai, they made an excellent comeback after losing the first set 0-6 ... They won the second set and converted the 3rd match point to win the match tie-break against the former WR #1 Kontinen and Peers ... In the quarters, Jeevan and Purav r facing the experienced players, Verdasco and Kohlschreiber ... Lee and Paire r facing the 4th seeds Rajeev Ram and Salisbury.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2019, Osaka, Japan

[Q2] (10) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,353) l (1) Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR,282) 16 16

Doubles
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Robu Kajitani (JPN) l (1) Na-Lee Han (KOR)/ Peangtarn Plipuech (THA) 46 16

The top-300 Norwegian girl, Ulrikke Eikeri, proved too strong for Rutuja ... But god to see Rutuja on the court.
In the doubles also Rutuja failed to overcome the challenge of the top-seed pair and lost in straight sets.

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At $2.9M Dubai Tennis Championship 2019, UAE

[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,128) l Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP,18) 46 36

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Leander Paes (IND)/ Benoit Paire (FRA) bt Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) 62 76(2)

Ram gave a decent performance in the first set against Bautista Agut ... But Bautista Agut controlled the second set to complete straight sets victory.

A good start for Lee in Dubai ... Lee and Paire started with straight sets win over Rohan and Divij.

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At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2019, Osaka, Japan

[Q1] (10) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,353) bt Erica Sema (JPN,379) 16 63 10-3

[Q2] (10) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,353) vs (1) Ulrikke Eikeri (NOR,282)

Doubles
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND)/ Robu Kajitani (JPN) vs (1) Na-Lee Han (KOR)/ Peangtarn Plipuech (THA)

In her comeback match after almost 2 and half month injury break, Rutuja started with a win against an experienced Japanese girl ... But having a tough match in the final qualifying against the top-300 Norwegian girl, Ulrikke Eikeri.
In the doubles also Rutuja having a tough match against the top-seed pair with her Japanese partner, Kajitani.

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At ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol 2019, New Delhi, India

In the 10m Air Rifle Men event, the Indians failed to reach into the final ... Divyansh Singh Panwar finished on the 12th position with 627.2 pts ... Ravi Kumar finished on the 14th position with 627 pts and Deepak Kumar on the 34th position with 624.3 pts ... So a disappointing day for us.

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At $10.25M WGC-Mexico Championship 2019, Mexico City, Mexico

T60 Shubhankar Sharma (IND) 70 77 70 75 +8 $ 51,750.00

Shubhankar managed a couple of under-par rounds but he struggled on remaining two rounds to finish on the T60th position ... Overall, a good experience for Shubhankar of rubbing the shoulders with the top players.

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At $3M Puerto Rico Open 2019, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico (PGA Tour)

70 Arjun Atwal (IND) 72 73 74 75 +6 $ 6,060.00

Arjun participated in the Puerto Rico Open, he managed to make the cut but finished in the bottom field.

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At ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol 2019, New Delhi, India

P.C. to ISSF twitter handle

10m Air Pistol Men
Gold - Saurabh Chaudhary (IND) 245.0 pts (WR)
Silver - Damir Mikec (SRB) 239.3 pts
Bronze - Wei Pang (CHN) 215.2 pts

The 16-year old Saurabh Chaudhary set a new World Record with 245.0 points (with an average higher than 10.2 points per shot throughout the final) to secure the gold medal, as well as a Tokyo 2020 Olympic quota place for India.

In the qualifying, Saurabh qualified on the 3rd position with 587 pts ... Abhishek Verma finished on the 24th and Ravinder Singh on the 26th positions with 576 pts.
In the 25m Pistol Women final, Manu Bhaker became the 4th player to get eliminated with 22 hits and finished on the 5th position ... Before that in the qualifying, Manu qualified on the 2nd position with 590 pts ... Rahi Sarnobat finished on the 15th and Chinki Yadav finished on the 17th position with 580 pts.
In the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men event, our players failed to qualify for the final ... Parul Kumar finished on the 22nd position with 1170 pts and Sanjeev Rajput finished on the 25th position with 1169 pts.

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At $2.9M Dubai Tennis Championship 2019, UAE

[Q2] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Hubert Hurkacz (POL)/ Denis Kudla (USA) 64 62

[R1] (Q) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (3) Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ John Peers (AUS)

Jeevan and Purav qualify for the Dubai Championship with a comfortable win over Kudla and Hurkacz ... In the first round, they r facing the former WR #1 pairing of Peers and Kontinen.

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At ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol 2019, New Delhi, India

P.C. to ISSF site

10m Air Rifle Women
Gold - Apurvi Chandela (IND) 252.9 pts (WR)
Silver - Ruozhu Zhao (CHN) 251.8 pts
Bronze - Hong Xu (CHN) 230.4 pts

Apurvi Chandela won a Gold in the 10m Air Rifle women setting a new world record of 252.9 points, out of 24 final shots ... She bettered the previous record of 252.4 pts, which was set by Ruozhu Zhao ... But no Olympic quota for us, as Apurvi had already won an Olympic quota at last year’s World Championship ... So the Chinese girls secured the two Tokyo 2020 quota places up for grabs.

Apurvi qualified for the final in the 4th place with 629.3 pts ... Anjum Moudgil finished on the 12th place with 628.0 pts and Elavenil Valarivan finished on the 30th place with 625.3 pts.

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At $2.9M Dubai Tennis Championship 2019, UAE

[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,128) vs Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP,18)

Doubles
[Q1] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Karim-Mohamed Maamoun (EGY)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY) 46 62 10-6

[Q2] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Hubert Hurkacz (POL)/ Denis Kudla (USA)

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (WC) Leander Paes (IND)/ Benoit Paire (FRA)

In the singles, Ram has received a main draw wild card, but having tough math against experienced top-20 Spaniard, Roberto Bautista Agut.

Crap draw for the Indians in the doubles ... Rohan and Divij r facing Lee and Paire, the winner of this match can meet Rajeev Ram and his partner in the second round.

Jeevan and Purav started with a comeback win over the Egyptian pair after losing the first set ... In the final qualifying round, they r facing Kudla and Hurkacz, who defeated the top-seed pair in the first qualifying.

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At $250K Abierto Mexicano TELCEL 2019, Acapulco, Mexico

[Q1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,207) l (7) Tereza Martincova (CZE,153) 67(5) 36

Karman gave a decent performance in her loss against the top-150 type Czech player Martincova.

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At $54K+H Bangkok 1A Challenger 2019, Thailand

[SF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,97) l (15) James Duckworth (AUS,210) 67(2) 63 67(3)

Prajnesh lost in three sets against Duckworth ... He lost both tie-breaks convincingly as Duckworth served well in this match with 15 aces ... Only break in the match was taken by Prajnesh in the second set for winning it ... Prajnesh tried playing aggressively and was going for winners or taking extra risk for hitting flat and powerful baseline shots ... I feel, he is in transition for the ATP tournaments and practicing this game which can help him to be successful on the tour.

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At $54K+H Bangkok 1A Challenger 2019, Thailand

[QF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,97) bt (9) Go Soeda (JPN,194) 63 63

[SF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,97) bt (15) James Duckworth (AUS,210)

Prajnesh scored a comfortable win over Go Soeda ... In the semis, he is facing another former top-100 Aussie player, James Duckworth.

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At € 744K Open 13 Provence 2019, Marseille, France

[QF] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT) 67(4) 76(6) 8-10

A close loss for Jeevan and Purav in almost 2 hours long match against the experienced Austrian pair ... The first 2 sets went to the tie-breaks as the Austrian pair won the first set and our pair won the second after saving 3 match point from 3-6 down ... They failed to keep momentum after taking a 3-1 lead in the match tie-break which the Austrian pair won it.

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At $54K+H Bangkok 1A Challenger 2019, Thailand

[R3] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,97) bt (16) Soonwoo Kwon (KOR,225) 76(5) 64

[QF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,97) bt (9) Go Soeda (JPN,194)

Prajnesh is in the quarters with a tight straight sets win over Kwon ... Next, he is facing the former top-50 and experienced Japanese, Go Soeda.

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At $54K+H Bangkok 1A Challenger 2019, Thailand

[R2] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,97) bt (ITF) Denis Yvseyev (KAZ,320) 75 36 64

[R3] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,97) vs (16) Soonwoo Kwon (KOR,225)

Doubles
[R1] Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) l (ITF) Francis Casey Alcantara (PHI)/ Bernardo Saraiva (POR) 67(4) 67(4)

A hard fought win for Prajnesh against the lower ranked Kazakh opponents ... Next, he is facing the Korean, Soonwoo Kwon.

Saki and Erlich lost in the two tie-breaks against the ITF pair.

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At € 744K Open 13 Provence 2019, Marseille, France

[R1] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (1) Oliver Marach (AUT)/ Mate Pavic (CRO) 62 64

[QF] (WC) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Jurgen Melzer (AUT)/ Philipp Oswald (AUT)

Jeevan and Purav scored an impressive win over the top-10 pairing of Marach and Pavic in straight sets ... Next, they r facing another tough challenge of experienced Austrian pair.

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At $651K Delray Beach Open 2019, Florida, USA

[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Tim Smyczek (USA) l Marcelo Arevalo (ESA)/ Jamie Cerretani (USA) 46 26

Ram and Smyczek lost in straight sets against Cerretani and Arevalo.

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At $54K+H Bangkok 1A Challenger 2019, Thailand

[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,271) l Kevin King (USA,303) 75 46 26

[R2] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,97) vs (ITF) Denis Yevseyev (KAZ,12)
[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,255) l (15) James Duckworth (AUS,210) 46 06

Doubles
[R1] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) l Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Hiroki Moriya (JPN) 75 46 9-11

Another forgettable day for the Indians ... Mukund lost in the first round after winning the first set against King.
Saki failed to challenge Duckworth in his straight sets loss.

The 4th seeds Bala and Arjun lost against Lopez Perez and Moriya after winning the first set in the match tie-break.

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At $11K Men's EM Noll Classic 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (PSA Challenger Tour)

Final
(4) Ramit Tandon (IND,58) l (3) Youssef Ibrahim (EGY,64) 11-8, 5-11, 0-2 retd.

A hard-luck for Ramit as after winning the first game he got injured and conceded the match in the third game against Youssef Ibrahim.

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At $54K+H Bangkok 1A Challenger 2019, Thailand

[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND,255) bt Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE,287) 63 75

[R2] Saketh Myneni (IND,255) vs (15) James Duckworth (AUS,210)

Doubles
[R1] (4) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) vs Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Hiroki Moriya (JPN)
[R1] Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs (ITF) Francis Casey Alcantara (PHI)/ Bernardo Saraiva (POR)

Saki started with straight sets win over the former top-200 player, Tsung-Hua Yang ... In the second round, he is facing the former top-100 Aussie player, James Duckworth.

In the doubles, Bala and Arjun r the 4th seeds and facing Lopez Perez and Moriya ... Saki is playing with the Israeli veteran Jonathan Erlich and they r facing the ITF pair.

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At $11K Men's EM Noll Classic 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (PSA Challenger Tour)

[R1] (4) Ramit Tandon (IND,58) bt Farhan Zaman (PAK,122) 11-6, 11-6, 11-1 (13m)
[QF] (4) Ramit Tandon (IND,58) bt (6) Christopher Gordon (USA,79) 11-5, 11-7, 11-5 (46m)

[SF] (4) Ramit Tandon (IND,58) bt (2) Chris Hanson (USA,65) 11-8, 11-0, 11-9 (40m)

[F] (4) Ramit Tandon (IND,58) vs (3) Youssef Ibrahim (EGY,64)

Ramit continues with his good form ... He is in the final of the PSA Challenger tournament in America ... He started with a crushing win over the former top-50 Pakistani player, Farhan Zaman ... In the quarters and semis, he ended the American hope beating their seeded players in straight games ... In the final, he is facing a young Egyptian, Youssef Ibrahim.

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At $11K Women's EM Noll Classic 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (PSA Challenger Tour)

[R1] (8) Sunayna Kuruvilla (IND,86) bt Jelena Dutina (SRB,110) 11-1, 11-6, 11-1 (18m)

[QF] (8) Sunayna Kuruvilla (IND,86) l (2) Sabrina Sobhy (USA,89) 8-11, 2-11, 3-11 (27m)

Sunayna lost in the quarters against the similar rankled American player, Sobhy, after winning the first round.