Wednesday, July 05, 2017

Tennis News

At Wimbledon 2017, London, England

[R1] (13) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bt Naomi Osaka (JPN)/ Shuai Zhang (CHN) 64 63

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Kyle Edmund (GBR)/ Joao Sousa (POR) 76(2) 36 64 76(6)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Jarred Donaldson (USA) l (WC) Jay Clarke (GBR)/ Marcus Willis (GBR) 76(4) 75 67(3) 06 36

[R2] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (7) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA)

Mixed Doubles
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Zhaoxuan Yang (CHN) vs KenSkupski (GBR)/ Jocelyn Rae (GBR)
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Yifan Xu (CHN) vs Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Raluca Olaru (ROU)
[R1] (10) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) bye
[R1] (4) Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Sania Mirza (IND) bye
[R1] Purav Raja (IND)/ Eri Hozumi (JPN) vs Santiago Gonzalez (MEX)/ Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP)

Divij-Purav scored hard fought four sets win over Edmund-Sousa for their first Wimbledon main-draw win ... After winning the first set they lost the second set ... They recovered for winning the third and in the 4th set our pair missed 3 match points in 12th game on Edmund's serve but they converted next in the tie-break ... Next, they r facing 7th seed Ram and Klaasen.

Disheartening loss for Jeevan-Donaldson after 2 sets up against British pair ... After winning first 2 tight sets they failed to complete victory in the third set .. Afterwards British pair dominated proceedings for excellent comeback win.

Sania-Flipkens started with comfortable straight sets win.

MXD draw is out, first time our 5 players r playing in the MXD draw ... This time Lee and Martina have decided to part away with their partnership ... So Lee is pairing with Chinese girl Yifan Xu ... Divij and Purav r first time participating and they r pairing respectively Chinese girl Zhaoxuan Yang and Japanese girl Eri Hozumi ... Sania and Rohan r seeded with their respective partners and they r having bye in the first round.


At $25K China F10 Futures 2017, Shenzhen Shenzhen

[R2] (3) Prajnesh GUNNESWARAN (IND,259) bt Yecong HE (CHN,670) 61 60
[R2] Karunuday SINGH (IND,806) bt (7) Xin GAO (CHN,544) 63 62

Another straight sets upset win by KU against seeded Chinese player, Xin Gao ... Other hand Prajnesh has showing terrific form beating top-700 Chinese oppoennt Yecong He losing only a game.

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