Monday, October 24, 2016

Tennis News

At $50K Pune Challenger, India

[R1] (WC) Dhruv Sunish (IND,1643) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma (IND,1246) 64 26 63
[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,556) l Sadio Doumbia (FRA,378) 64 46 46
[R1] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,329) bt Haadin Bava (IND,896) 75 26 64
[R1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,630) bt (Q) Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND,853) 75 67(3) 62
[R1] Sanam Singh (IND,536) l (7) Dimitry Popko (KAZ,240) 63 67(6) 67(5)
[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,417) bt Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND,1073) 76(2) 64
[R1] Anvit Bendre (IND,1632) l (Q) Luca Margaroli (SUI,1270) 36 36

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (3) Saketh Myneni (IND)/ Sanam Singh (IND) 67(2) 63 10-4
[R1] Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND)/ Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND) bt (WC) Tejas Chaukulkar (IND)/ Jayesh Pungliya (IND) 62 64
[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt (WC) Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (IND)/ Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (IND) 60 64

Overall expected win by our players against fellow players ... Sasi failed to keep momentum after winning the first set against Frenchman ... Sanam missed golden opportunity of upsetting his 7th seed Kazakh top-250 opponent ... After winning the first set he had 4 match points in the second set tie-break at 2-6 ... He lost next 6 points for losing the set and then lost decider also in tie-break.

In the doubles tricky pair of Bala and Vishnu scored comeback upset win over 3rd seed Sanam and Saki in match tie-break ... Otherwise easy wins for our Indian pairs.

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