Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Tennis News

AtFed Cup 2017 - Asia/ Oceania Group I - 1st Round, Astana, Kazakhstan

Pool B

India l Japan 0-3
[R1] Karman Kaur THANDI (IND) l Naomi OSAKA (JPN) 26 26
[R2] Ankita RAINA (IND) l Misaki DOI (JPN) 06 36
[R3] Ankita RAINA (IND)/ Karman Kaur THANDI (IND) l Shuko AOYAMA (JPN)/ Eri HOZUMI (JPN) 16 36

Expected losses of our players against top-50 type Japanese players ... Next they r having another tough group match against china.

At €540K Open Sud de France 2017, Montpellier, France

[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Purav (IND) bt Dustin Brown (GER)/ Karen Khachanov (RUS) w/o (Khachanov - right shoulder)

[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Divij Purav (IND) vs Malek Jaziri (TUN)/ Albano Olivetti (FRA)

Purav-Divij r in the quarters without hitting the ball as they received walkover ... Other hand Leander and Sa withdrawn due to Lee's ankle injury.

At $540K Ecuador Open 2017, Quito

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Sergio Galdos (PER) l (3) Nicholas Monroe (USA)/ Artem Sitak (NZL) 67(5) 67(8)

Very close loss in two tie-breaks for Jeevan and Sergio against 3rd seed pair.

At $100K San Francisco Challenger, California, USA

[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,264) bt (WC) Marcos Giron (USA,443) 26 64 64

[R2] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,264) vs (5) Henri Laaksonen (SUI,124)

After long travel RamK scored an impressive win over in-form American Marcos Giron ... After losing the first set lopsidedly RamK dig deep for fighting back and won next two sets ... Next, he is facing top-125 Swiss player Henri Laaksonen.

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