Sunday, June 18, 2017

Tennis News

At €1.9M Aegon Championship 2017, London, England

[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) vs (WC) Kyle Edmund (ENG)/ Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)

Rohan has participated with Dodig and they r facing British-Aussie wild-card pair.

At $820K Aegon Classic Birmingham 2017, England (Premier)

[Q1] Ankita Raina (IND,273) bt Katy Dunne (GBR,294) 76(6) 64

[Q2] Ankita Raina (IND,273) l (6) Tereza Smitkova (CZE,160) 75 26 26

Doubles
[R1] Sania Mirza (IND)/ CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) vs Darija Jurak (CRO)/ Anastasia Rodionova (AUS)

Ankita played in the qualifying for this Aegon Classic ... She started with a good win against similar ranked British player but lost in the second qualifying round against Smitkova after winning the first set.

This week, Sania playing with CoCo Vandeweghe and they r facing Darija Jurak and Anastasia Rodionova.


At $150K+H Ilkley Challenger 2017, England (Grass)

[R2] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,231) vs Peter Polansky (CAN,127)

Tough first round for Yuki against Canadian Peter Polansky.

At $75K+H Fergana Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,295) vs (6) Brayden Schnur (CAN,245)
[R1] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,271) vs (Q) Sergey Betov (BLR,812)
[R1] Vishnu Vardhan (IND,453) vs (2) Duckhee Lee (KOR,133)

Doubles
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ Sergey Betov (BLR) vs (WC) Saida'Lo Saidkarimov (UZB)/ Batyr Sapaev (UZB)
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs (WC) Sergey Fomin (UZB)/ Azizkhon Turgunov (UZB)

Prajnesh is facing his doubles partner Betov in the first round ... Bala is facing seeded Canadian Brayden Schnur ... Vishnu is facing Duckhee ... In the doubles, Vishnu and Bala r 2nd seed.

At $50K+H Blois Challenger 2017, France (Red clay)

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,247) vs Mathias Bourgue (FRA,171)

Doubles
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND)/ Alexey Vatutin (RUS) vs (WC) Luke Purser (GBR)/ Thomas Rodrigues (FRA)

RamK having tough match against Frenchman Mathias Bourgue.

At $15K ITF Women's Tournament 2017, Curtea de Arges, Romania (Red clay)

Singles Final
(4) Riya BHATIA (IND,572) l (8) Georgia Andreea CRACIUN (ROU,571) 16 16

17 yrs old Craciun proved too strong for Riya in the final, but still good performance by Riya as she reached the final of ITF tournament outside India..

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