Sunday, August 13, 2017

Tennis News

At $4.6M Rogers Cup 2017, Montreal, Canada

[SF] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) bt (6) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Rajeev Ram (USA) 46 76(8) 11-9

[F] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) vs (5) Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Nicolas Mahut (FRA)

Rohan-Dodig scored excellent comeback win over Rajeev-Klaasen ... After losing the first set they needed to dig deep for comeback ... They won the long tie-break and in the match tie-break also our pair was 3-6 down ... They converted 2nd match point and facing another French pair in the final.

At $5.6M Cincinnati Masters 2017, USA

[Q1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,179) bt (4) Dusan Lajovic (SRB,68) 76(1) 64
[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,213) l (14) Maximilian Marterer (GER,122) 26 67(2)

[Q2] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,179) vs (14) Maximilian Marterer (GER,122)

Doubles
[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Alexander Zverev (GER) vs Feliciano Lopez (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP)
[R1] (7) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Ivan Dodig (CRO) bye

RamK started with upset win over top-70 Serbian Dusan Lajovic in straight sets ... In the first set, he was break up at 5-2 but got broken while serving for the set at 5-3 ... RamK kept his composure for winning the tie-break losing only a single point ... RamK started the second set with early break and was leading 4-2 ... He kept that advantage for completing another win over top-100 player ... Next, he is facing German Maximilian Marterer, who defeated Prajnesh ... Prajnesh gave decent perfomance in his first Master qualifying match ... After losing the first set easily he stretched Marterer to the tie-break in the second.

Lee managed some coup as he is partnering Sascha in Cincinnati and playing his first Masters of 2017.

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