Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

Juniors
[R2] (15) Zeel Desai (IND,19) bt Marta Paigina (RUS,191) 57 1-0 retd.
[R2] Mahak Jain (IND,29) l (3) Claire Liu (USA,2) 26 16

Lucky break for Zeel as her experienced and top-350 WTA ranked Paigina retired after winning the first set ... Mahak failed to challenge WR #2 junior American in her match.

At $75K Winnetka Challenger 2017, USA

[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,184) bt (PR) Bradley Klahn (USA,497) 36 76(4) 76(9)

[R2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,184) vs (WC) JC Aragone (USA,660)

Doubles
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) vs Dominik Koepfer (GER)/ Alex Lawson (USA) 5-5 (to be finished)

Excellent tight comeback win for RamK against Klahn in almost 2 hours and 45 mins match ... After losing the first set RamK was a break down ... But he recovered for breaking back and then winning the tie-break ... In the third, RamK was a break up at 3-0, Klahn broke back for 4-all ... RamK kept his nerve for winning the long tie-break after saving match points ... Next, RamK will face American wild-card player, JC Aragone.

At $50K Bastad Challenger 2017, Sweden

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt (WC) Filip Bergevi (SWE)/ Andre Goransson (SWE) 46 64 10-6

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs (1) Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE)

Bala-VSP started with a comeback win over local wildcard pair ... Next, they r facing local top-seed pair.

At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Naiman, China

[R1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,413) bt (6) Tara Moore (GBR,217) 63 76(5)

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,413) vs (Q) Yue Yuan(CHN,767)

Impressive straight sets win over top-225 British player by Karman ... Next, she is facing Chinese qualifier.

At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

[R1] (Q) Kanika VAIDYA (IND,1100) vs (Q) Elina VIKHRYANOVA (RUS,1162)
[R1] Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,820) bt Andrina PEER (SUI,1044) 75 60
[R1] Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1054) bt Oleksandra ANDRIEIEVA (UKR,923) 62 61

Pranjala started with dominating win over Ukrainian girl ... Rutuja also joined her in the second round with a convincing win over her Swiss opponent.

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