Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Tennis News

At €540K Moselle Open 2017, Metz, France

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) l Treat Huey (PHI)/ Fabrice Martin (FRA) 46 26

Divij and his British partner Neal Skupski lost in the straight sets against Huey and Martin.

At $75K Columbus Challenger 2017, Ohio, USA

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,227) l (WC) Martin Joyce (USA,1882) 67(4) 67(1)

Poor loss, somehow Prajnesh has failed to adjust challenger level matches but this match was futures qualifying level ... I don't have any comment about how top-225 ranked player lost against 1800+ ranked player.

At $25K ITF Womens Tournament 2017, Lubbock, Texas, USA

[R1] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,315) bt Thaisa Grana Pedretti (BRA,739) 62 61

[R2] (2) Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,315) vs Alisa Kleybanova (RUS,628)

Karman started with a comfortable win over junior top-40 Brazilian girl Pedretti ... Next, she is facing former top-20 singles and former top-10 doubles Russian player, Alisa Kleybanova ... She was Sania's partner when they won Wimbledon Junior Girl's Doubles crown way back in 2003 ... After that in 2011, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma (cancer), she recovered from it but struggled to fulfill her potential, still very inspiring story.

At $15K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Hua Hin, Thailand

[R1] Natasha Palha (IND,755) bt (Q) Watsachol Sawasdee (THA,UNR) 75 26 76(6)
[R1] Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,787) l (5) Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE,510) 46 06
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,738) bt (8) Ao Gai (CHN,557) 57 60 64

[R2] Natasha Palha (IND,755) vs (1) Julia Glushko (ISR,292)
[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,738) vs (Q) Jiaxue Zang (CHN,1121)
[R2] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,618) vs (2) Jia-Qi Kang (CHN,346)

Rutuja continued with her terrific form and scored comeback win over her seeded Chinese opponent ... Natasha saved couple of match points against Thai girl Sawasdee, who reached in the quarters last week, before completing the victory.

In the second round Natasha and Pranjala r facing top 2 seeds and Rutuja is facing an qualifier.

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