Saturday, March 04, 2017

Tennis News

At $2.4M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2017, UAE

Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Marcin Matkowski (POL) l (4) Jean-Julien Rojer (NED)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 64 36 3-10

Rojer-Tecau dominated the match tie-break for lifting Dubai title ... Rohan-Marcin started with winning the first set but Rojer-Tecau started their comeback after winning the second.

At $15K India F3 Futures, Guwahati

[R1] (3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt Mohammed Iftikhar SHEIKH (IND) 60 63
[R2] (3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt Dalwinder SINGH (IND) 63 36 63
[QF] (3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (6) Sidharth RAWAT (IND) 63 64
[SF] (3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (2) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 63 46 61

Singles Final
(3) Sasi Kumar MUKUND (IND) bt (4) Sami REINWEIN (GER) 63 26 64

Doubles Final
(1) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (2) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND)/ Sanam SINGH (IND) 63 36 10-6

Sasi lifted his third futures title beating his German player Sami Reinwein in three sets ... Sasi will moved to top-450 in ranking after these 18 pts get added after two weeks.

Bala and Vishnu defeated VSP and Sanam is the match tie-break for lifting their 2nd doubles title in these three Indian futures.


At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Gwalior, India

[R1] Mahak JAIN (IND) bt Amrita MUKHERJEE (IND) 61 63
[R1] (8) Zeel DESAI (IND) bt Eetee MAHETA (IND) 63 36 64

[R2] Mahak JAIN (IND) bt (7) Sri Vaishnavi PEDDI REDDY (IND) 61 63
[R2] (8) Zeel DESAI (IND) bt Ramya NATARAJAN (IND) 36 60 60

[QF] Mahak JAIN (IND) bt Bhuvana KALVA (IND) 57 63 64
[QF] (8) Zeel DESAI (IND) bt (2) Riya BHATIA (IND) 64 63

[SF] Mahak JAIN (IND) bt (1) Fatma AL NABHANI (OMA) 63 4-0 retd.
[SF] (8) Zeel DESAI (IND) bt Lulu RADOVCIC (SUI) 63 76(5)

Singles Final
(8) Zeel DESAI (IND) bt Mahak JAIN (IND) 63 75

Zeel Desai won the match between promising youngsters for lifting her first ITF title ... She defeated 15 yrs old Mahak Jain in two sets ... This tournament proved to be very successful tournament from Zeel and Makak ... Zeel will moved inside top-700 after these tournament winning 12 pts get added ... Mahak needs to earn points from two more tournaments for entering into the ranking.

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