Sunday, September 17, 2017

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2017 - World Group Play-off, Edmonton, Canada

India l Canada 2-3

Day One
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,154) bt Brayden Schnur (CAN,202) 57 76(4) 75 75
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,157) l Denis Shapovalov (CAN,51) 67(2) 46 76(6) 64 16

Day Two
[R3] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Vasek Pospisil (CAN) 57 57 75 36

Day Three
[R4] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,154) l Denis Shapovalov (CAN,51) 36 67(1) 36
[R5] Yuki Bhambri (IND,157) bt Brayden Schnur (CAN,202) 64 46 64

RamK struggled with his first serve in this match and considering his return game is a liability then outcome of the match was already written on the wall ... Shapo took an early break to lead but while serving for the set RamK had break points which he failed to convert ... In the second set, at 6-5 RamK had a set point on Shapo's serve but again failed to convert ... He lost the tie-break cheaply ... With a single break of serve Shapo completed victory for the team Canada ... Though in this match, Shapo wasn't sharp and struggled with his first serve.

After this Yuki and Brayden Schnur played the 5th rubber, which didn't make any impact on overall tie ... Yuki kept his motivation of playing for the country and completed win in three sets ... With this loss we r back in Asia/ Oceania Group I.


At $1M St. Petersburg Open 2017, Russia

[R1] Leander Paes (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs James Cerretani (USA)/ Fabio Fognini (ITA)

This week Purav and Lee r playing at St. Petersburg and facing Cerretani-Fognini.

At €540K Moselle Open 2017, Metz, France

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

Divij is playing in Metz ATP with British partner Neal Skupski ... They r facing Huey and Martin.

At $75K Columbus Challenger 2017, Ohio, USA

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,227) vs (WC) Martin Joyce (USA,1882)
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,157) vs Jose Hernandez-Fernandez (DOM,341)
[R1] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,154) vs Sekou Bangoura (USA,386)

RamK and Yuki r top-3 seeds but both r in the bottom draw and they can face each other in the semis ... Prajnesh having winnable first round against Joyce.

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

[R1] Natasha Palha (IND,755) vs Qualifier
[R1] Zeel Desai (IND,695) vs (4) Yue Yuan (CHN,457)
[R1] Sowjanya Bavisetti (IND,787) vs (5) Ching-Wen Hsu (TPE,510)
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,738) vs (8) Ao Gai (CHN,557)
[R1] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,618) vs Aiko Yoshitomi (JPN,687)

Zeel, Sowjanya and Rutuja r facing seeded players in the first round.

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