Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Tennis News

At Roland Garros 2017, Paris, France

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (7) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) bt (3) Andrea Hlavackova (CZE)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 75 63

[F] (7) Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)/ Robert Farah (COL)

Juniors
[R1] Zeel Desai (IND)/ Fernanda Labrana (CHI) bt (4) Marta Kostyuk (UKR)/ Katarina Zavatska (UKR) w/o

[R2] Zeel Desai (IND)/ Fernanda Labrana (CHI) vs Ayumi Miyamoto (JPN)/ Xiyu Wang (CHN)

Rohan and Gabriela r in the final with straight sets win over 3rd seed pair Andrea Hlavackova and Edouard Roger-Vasselin ... In the final, they r facing unseeded pairing of Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah ... Tomorrow hoping for first grand slam title for Rohan.

Zeel and her Chilean partner received walkover from their 4th seed Ukrainian opponents ... Next, they r facing Asian pair.


At $125K Bol Open 2017, Croatia

[R1] (4) Alexandra Cadantu (ROU)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) bt Olga Govortsova (BLR)/ Alexandra Panova (RUS) 61 36 10-8

[QF] (4) Alexandra Cadantu (ROU)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs Tereza Mrdeza (CRO)/ Tamara Zidansek (SLO)

Prarthana-Alexandra started with a win in the match tie-break ... Next, they r facing Tereza Mrdeza and Tamara Zidansek.

At $150K+H Prostejov Challenger 2017, Czech Republic (Red clay)

[QF] (1) David Marrero (ESP)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt Radu Albot (MDA)/ Denys Molchanov (UKR) 76(3) 36 10-7

[SF] (1) David Marrero (ESP)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Hans Podlipink-Castillo (CHI)

Good fighting win by Lee-David against clay court specialist European pair in the match tie-break ... Next they r facing another clay court specialists, Roman Jebavy and Hans Podlipink-Castillo.

At $150K Surbiton Challenger 2017, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Dustin Brown (GER) bt Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 76(5) 67(3) 11-9

Very close win for Jeevan and Dustin in the match tie-break ... After losing the second set in the tie-break, Jeevan-Dustin saved a match point at 8-9 before converting their first match point ... Good win against big serving experienced Skupski brothers.

At $100K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Surbiton (Grass)

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) l Anna Blinkova (RUS)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 46 57

Ankita-Emily lost in straight sets against Russian pair.

At $25K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Namangan, Uzbekistan

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) bt (6) Olga Doroshina (RUS,301) 16 76(3) 61
[R2] (Q) Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal (IND,634) l (4) Ksenia Lykina (RUS,245) 67(3) 36

[QF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,480) vs (3) Nigina Abduraimova (UZB,193)

Excellent comeback upset win by Krman against top-300 Russian player ... Next, she is facing tough challenge of local top-200 player ... Dhruthi also gave fighting performance against her top-250 Russian opponent.

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