Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Tennis News

At $746K VTB Kremlin Cup 2017, Moscow, Russia

[R2] (Q) Yuki Bhambri (IND,152) l (6) Damir Dzumhur (BIH,38) 64 57 46

Yuki lost in close three sets against Dzumhur, Yuki played terrific match but again struggled with the fitness and endurance in the long match ... In the final set, he was break up 3-0 and 0-30 on Dzumhur's serve but from here he lost the plot.

In the first set, Yuki broke Dzumhur in the 4th game to lead 4-1 but while serving for the set at 5-3 Yuki failed to hold ... Yuki again broke Dzumhur in the 10th game for winning the set ... In the second set, both players were holding their respective services till the 10th game ... Dzumhur broke Yuki in the 11th game and after that Yuki took medical timeout ... After that, Dzumhur hold for winning this set ... In the final set, Yuki started confidently and broke Dzumhur in the 2nd game to lead 3-0 ... In the the 4th game, Yuki was 0-30 up on Dzumhur serve but from here Dzumhur showed his temperament ... He kept his composure and started fightback ... He broke Yuki in the 5th game and then again took a crucial break in the 9th game for completing the win.


At $125K Ningbo Challenger 2017, China

[R1] Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) bt Taro Daniel (JPN)/ Tatsuma Ito (JPN) 62 67(3) 10-5
[R1] (2) Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN) l Sadio Doumbia (FRA)/ Calvin Hemery (FRA) 26 36

[QF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs (WC) Di Wu (CHN)/ Yibing Wu (CHN)
[QF] Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE)/ Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE)

Sumit with Ghedin scored a win in the match tie-break against experienced Japanese pair ... Next, they r facing Taiwani pair ... Jeevan and Chris r playing against local wildcard pair ... French pair defeated 2nd seed Vishnu and Matsui convincingly.

At $60K ITF Women's Tennis Tournament 2017, Suzhou, China

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,271) l Hanyu Guo (CHN,333) 36 06

Doubles
[R1] (4) Dalila Jakupovic (SLO)/ Ankita Raina (IND) l Jia-Qi Kang (CHN)/ Xinyu Jiang (CHN) 16 16

Ankita lost one-sided matches in the singles and the doubles first round ... I think, her two months break was too long and she must be rusty.

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