Thursday, July 13, 2017

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

Mixed Doubles
[QF] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) vs Henri Kontinen (FIN)/ Heather Watson (GBR) 76(4) 46 57

Juniors
[R2] Zeel Desai (IND)/ Lulu Sun (SUI) l (2) Taylor Johnson (USA)/ Claire Liu (USA) 57 06

Rohan-Gabriela lost close match against defending champions Kontinen-Watson ... Our pair started with winning the first set tie-break comfortably ... But afterwards Kontinen-Watson proved better pair on the court for winning next two sets.

Zeel-Lulu lost in straight sets against 2nd seed American pair.


At $75K Winnetka Challenger 2017, USA

[QF] (5) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,184) bt Dominic Koepfer (GER,354) 64 63

[SF] (5) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,184) vs Tommy Paul (USA,355)

RamK wasn't playing his best tennis in this match but still managed to win ... It simply shows his new found confidence ... After early exchanged of breaks RamK took crucial break in 10th game for winning the first set ... In the second set also they exchanged early breaks ... But then RamK took crucial break in 8th game before holding his serve for entering into the semis ... Next, he is facing American Tommy Paul.

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

[R2] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,405) bt (Q) Yue Yuan (CHN,767) 63 61

[QF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,405) vs (2) Fangzhou Liu (CHN,134)

Karman scored easy straight sets win over Chinese qualifier ... Next, she is facing top-150 Chinese player Fangzhou Liu.

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

[R2] (Q) Kanika VAIDYA (IND,1100) vs (Q) Arlinda RUSHITI (SUI,1146) 67(5) 36
[R2] Rutuja BHOSALE (IND,820) l (3) Jacqueline CABAJ AWAD (SWE,512) 16 63 16
[R2] Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,1054) l (5) Ana Bianca MIHAILA (ROM,596) 36 46

Rutuja tried fightback after losing the first set easily ... She fought back to win the second but Swedish player proved too strong in the third. ... Decent performance by Kanika in her loss against similarly ranked Swiss opponent ... Pranjala also lost in straight sets against Mihaila.

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