Saturday, March 11, 2017

Tennis News

At $7.7M BNP Paribas Open 2017, Indian Wells, California, USA

[R2] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Barbora Strycova (CZE) bt Sara Errani (ITA)/ Alicja Rosolska (POL) 62 63

[R1] (WC) Leander Paes (IND)/ Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) l Gilles Muller (LUX)/ Sam Querrey (USA) 36 46

Sania-Barbora in the quarters with comfortable win over Errani-Rosolska.

Other hand Indian men challenge got over in the first round ... Lee and del Potro lost in the first round against Muller and Querrey.


At $50K+H Zhuhai Challenger 2017, China

[SF] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,341) l (1) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,99) 36 57

Yuki played decent tennis but he was bit overpowered by Donskoy ... In the first set, Donskoy took early break for leading 2-4 and kepth that advantage for winning it ... In the second set, both players hold their serves till 5-all ... Donskoy had 3 break points at 0-40, Yuki saved 2 buth failed to save third ... Donskoy hold his serve with helped of big serving nad powerful shots for winning this match ... Still good start for Yuki on these Chinese challenger seris.

At $15K India F4 Futures, Bhilai

[R1] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) bt (Q) Paramveer Singh Bajwa (IND) 63 63
[R2] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (IND) 62 63
[QF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) bt Pirmin Haenle (GER) 60 60
[SF] (1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) bt (3) Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 76(4) 64

Singles Final
(1) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND) bt (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) 64 62

Doubles Final
(1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) bt (2) Alexander Centerari (USA)/ Sami Reinwein (GER) 62 64

As expected Prajnesh lifted his 5th futures title beating Bala comfortably ... In this futures Prajnesh didn't got tested by any player ... Vishnu managed to take him in tie-break in the semis, otherwise comfortable wins for Prajnesh.

In the doubles, top-seed Bala and Vishnu lifted another title beating 2nd seed American-German pair comfortably ... This is their third title in a row.

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