Sunday, October 08, 2017

Tennis News

At $500K Tianjin Open 2017, China

[R1] Hiroko Kuwata (JPN)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs Hanyu Guo (CHN)/ QuiYu Ye (CHN)

This week, Prarthana is playing her first big $500K tournament in China ... She is partnering Japanese girl, Hiroko Kuwata and they r facing local girls in the first round.

At $100K Fairfield Challenger 2017, California, USA

[R1] (7) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,149) vs Tobias Kamke (GER,199)

With his last few weeks form, this will be tough match for RamK against former top-75 Kamke.

At $150K+H Tashkent Challenger 2017, Uzbekistan

[Q2] (5) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,488)bt Volodoymyr Uzhylovskyi (UKR,758) 67(5) 61 62

[Q3] (5) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,488) vs (1) Danilo Petrovic (SRB,255)

Doubles
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs (1) Guillermo Duran (ARG)/ Andres Molteni (ARG)
[R1] (4) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Thomas Fabbiano (ITA)/ Luca Margaroli (SUI)

Vishnu scored comeback win over his Ukrainian opponent ... After losing the first set he dominated the match ... Next, he is having tough match against top-250 type big serving Serbian giant Danilo Petrovic.

This week, Yuki is playing the doubles with Divij and they r facing top-seed Argentine pair ... Jeevan and Vishnu r 4th seed, they r facing experienced Italian Fabbiano and Swiss Margaroli.


At $15K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka

[QF] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND,531) bt Rushri Wijesundera (USA,1134) 46 64 63

[SF] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND,531) bt (Q) Alice Gillan (GBR,UNR) 64 62

[F] (1) Riya Bhatia (IND,531) vs (2) Josephine Boualem (FRA,606) 6-5 (suspended)

Riya played in three matches in a day ... In the final, Riya was a break down at 3-5 but she broke Boualem when she was serving for the set ... Riya again broke Boualem in 11th game to lead 6-5 and after that match stopped and will be completed tomorrow ... In the semis, she comfortably defeated British qualifier and before that Riya completed win in next three games in the quarters.

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