Thursday, August 17, 2017

Tennis News

At $5.6M Cincinnati Masters 2017, USA

[R2] (LL) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,180) l (WC) Jared Donaldson (USA,60) 46 62 46

RamK lost in three sets against Donaldson ... Few weaknesses were visible in this match though this was fighting performance ... RamK needs to mix his game, don't need to rush to the net for serve and volley for every serve, need to work hard on his backhands as against top-100 player his backhand weakness is a liability and he needs to be patient in constructing the point.

In the first set, till 8 games both players hold their respective service games ... Donaldson broke RamK in the 9th game and then hold for winning the set ... RamK won the second set comfortably as he broke Donaldson in the 4th and 8th games ... In the final set, Donaldson kept a lot of pressure on RamK's serve ... He took a crucial break in the 3rd game to lead 1-3 ... In the 10th game RamK saved 3 match points and had a break point but Donaldson holds with some big serve and completed victory.


At $2.5M Western & Southern Open 2017, Cincinnati, USA (Premier 5)

[R2] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Shuai Peng (CHN) bt Julia Goerges (GER)/ Olga Savchuk (UKR) 75 64

[QF] (4) Sania Mirza (IND)/ Shuai Peng (CHN) vs Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)/ Raluca Olaru (ROU)

Sania and Peng r in the quarters with straight sets win over Goerges and Savchuk ... Next, they r facing Romanian pair, Irina-Camelia Begu and Raluca Olaru.

At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Nonthaburi, Thailand

[QF] (Q) Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,732) l (1) Luksika Kumkhum (THA,179) 26 06
[QF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,337) bt Kyoka Okamura (JPN,397) 63 62

[SF] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,337) vs (1) Luksika Kumkhum (THA,179)

Karman scored a comfortable win over Japanese Okamura for entering into the semis ... She is having the tough challenge of top-200 Thai girl, Luksika Kumkhum ... Luksika scored dominating win over young Pranjala ... Pranjala was a break up at 2-0 but afterward lost next 12 games in a row.

At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Leipzig, Germany

[R2] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,271) bt Alice Matteucci (ITA,396) 63 64

[QF] (7) Ankita Raina (IND,271) vs (3) Valentyna Ivakhnenko (RUS,240)

Ankita entered into the quarters with straight sets win over Italian girl ... Next, she is facing top-250 Russian girl, Valentyna Ivakhnenko.

At $15K Thailand F6 2017, Nonthaburi

[QF] (6) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,502) bt Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,558) 63 64

VSP into the semis with straight sets win over Thai Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul.

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