Monday, November 13, 2017

Tennis News

At $50K+H Pune Challenger 2017, Maharashtra

[R1] (WC) Saketh Myneni (IND,907) bt Tomislav Brkic (BIH,248) 63 46 62
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran(IND,253) l (7) Evan King (USA,197) 36 36
[R1] (WC) Vishnu Vardhan (IND,513) l (9) Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ,245) 36 64 67(6)
[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,352) bt Karim-Mohamed Maamoun (EGY,235) 64 62
[R1] (LL) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,622) vs (WC) Aryan Goveas (IND,698)
[R1] (3) Yuki Bhambri (IND,137) vs (Q) Kaichi Uchida (JPN,356)

[R2] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,352) vs (9) Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ,245)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l Ivan Sabanov (CRO)/ Matej Sabanov (CRO) 36 57
[R1] (WC) Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Naoki Nakagawa (JPN) bt (WC) Siddanth Banthia (IND)/ Jayesh Pungliya (IND) 75 60

The lucky break for our players as VSP is facing Aryan as a lucky-loser ... Yuki is facing Japanese qualifier.

Saki scored his first win over top-250 player after coming out of injury ... Saki comfortably won the first set ... In the second set, he struggled with his backhand and serve ... Brkic broke him in the 8th game, 3-5, but Saki immediately broke back when Brkic was serving for the set ... But again Saki failed to hold in the 10th game for losing the set ... In the third set, Saki again started serving big and his backhands were too good ... He broke Brkic in 1st and 3rd games to lead 3-0 ... Brkic took a break back bur Saki again broke him to win this set comfortably.

Bala scored an excellent upset win over top-250 Egyptian opponent ... Bala was a break down early but after that, he took control of the match and dominated Maamoun ... Next, he is facing Nedo, who was lucky to beat Vishnu.

Vishnu missed huge opportunity to complete comeback victory ... After losing the first set Vishnu made comeback and won the second set ... In the third set tie-break, he was up 4-1 but from here he missed overhead and made some silly mistakes for losing the match.
Prajnesh was looking good against Evan ... But he showed unnecessary aggression and some loose shots for losing the service games and match.

In the doubles, Sumit-Naoki won their match in the straight sets ... I still feel Sood twins were more deserving for the wild-card instead of Jayesh-Siddanth ... Arjun and VSP also lost in the straight sets against Sabanov twins.


At $60K+H ITF Women's Tournament 2017, Toyota, Japan

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,283) vs (Q) Megumi Nishimoto (JPN,718)

Doubles
[R1] (3) Ankita Raina (IND)/ Erika Sema (JPN) vs Rika Fujiwara (JPN)/ Ayano Shimizu (JPN)

A winnable match for Ankita against Japanese qualifier ... In the doubles, she is 3rd seed with Sema.

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