Saturday, February 18, 2017

Tennis News

At $776K Qatar Total Open 2017, Doha

[SF] (2) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) l (4) Abigail Spears (USA)/ Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 36 61 8-10

Another disappointing tournament for Sania-Barbora pairing as one more loss in the semi-final against Spears-Srebotnik in the match tie-break.

At $2.66M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2017, UAE

[R1] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) bye

They r 4th seed at Dubai and bye in the first round.

At $25K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Perth, Australia

Doubles Final
(1) Irina Maria BARA (ROU)/ Prarthana G. THOMBARE (IND) l (2) Junri NAMIGATA (JPN)/ Riko SAWAYANAGI (JPN) 67(5) 64 9-11

Top-seed Prarthana and Irina lost in the final against 2nd seed Japanese pair ... After losing the first set Prarthana-Irina tried fightback winning the second ... But they lost the match tie-break in extra points.

At $50K+H Kyoto Challenger, Japan

[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,319) bt Ruben Gonzales (PHI,922) 75 64

[Q2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,319) vs Yusuke Watanuki (JPN,778)

Prajnesh is back on the tour after six weeks break and started with a win at Kyoto qualifying.

At $15K India F1 Futures, Chandigarh

[R1] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt Kunal Anand (IND) 61 62
[R2] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt Aryan Goveas (IND) 63 63
[QF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt Sanam Singh (IND) 61 63
[SF] (1) Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt (7) Sidharth Rawat (IND) 61 61

Singles Final
(1) Yuki Bhambri (IND) bt (2) N.Sriram Balaji (IND) 62 62

As expected Yuki wins another future title ... Not a single Indian player manged to challenge his game as he won all his matches comfortably ... It was his 12th Futures singles title for Yuki who have five singles and six doubles titles at the Challenger level.

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