Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2018, Melbourne

[Q1] (28) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,139) bt Bradley Klahn (USA,219) 67(6) 76(3) 62
[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,252) vs Tobias Kamke (GER,229) 64 16 26
[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,216) l Alessandro Giannessi (ITA,161) 67(5) 63 36
[Q1] (15) Yuki Bhambri (IND,121) bt Brayden Schnur (CAN,185) 16 63 64

[Q2] (28) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,139) vs Gleb Sakharov (FRA,153)
[Q2] (15) Yuki Bhambri (IND,121) vs Carlos Taberner (ESP,186)

RamK handled superbly pressure of losing to win a match ... RamK and Klahn hold their respective service games to take the first set in the tie-break ... Klahn took a crucial mini-break on the 14th points for winning the set ... In the second set, Klahn broke RamK in the 5th game, 2-4, but RamK broke him when he was serving for the match in the 10th game, 5-all ... RamK won the tie-break comfortably ... In the third set, from 2-all RamK won next 4 games in a row breaking Klahn in 5ht and 7th games ... This was an amazing comeback from RamK against solid player ... RamK will be faced top-150 type Frenchman Sakharov in the second qualifying.

Yuki moved into the second qualifying round with a comeback win over his tricky Canadian opponent, Brayden Schnur ... In the first set, Yuki failed to challenge Schnur's big serve and powerful shots and lost it easily ... Yuki started to read Schnur's game from the second set ... Yuki broke Schnur in the 6th game to lead 4-2 and kept that advantage for winning this set ... In the third set, both players hold their respective service games until 2-all ... Yuki broke Schnur in the 5th game but failed to hold in the next, 3-all ... Yuki took a crucial break in the 9th game to lead 5-4 ... Schnur saved a couple of match point from 40-15 down but Yuki converted third match point for completing the win ... On the paper, Yuki's next match looks winnable against Spanish Taberner.

Prajnesh missed a big opportunity for scoring a win in the grand slam qualifying ... He started well and won the first set with a single break advantage after saving 2 break points in the 10th game ... From the second set, Prajnesh struggled with his game and failed to keep a ball in the court ... Kamke took advantage of it and won next two sets comfortably.

The loss for Sumit was a case of missed opportunities ... In the first set, Giannessi broke Sumit in 6th game to lead 2-4 but Sumit immediately broke back for 3-4 ... Sumit again broke him in the 9th game to lead 5-4 ... While serving for the set, Sumit had two set points at 40-15 but he failed to convert ... Giannessi broke him and then won the tie-break ... In the second set, Sumit took an early break and kept that advantage for winning it ... In the final set, Sumit broke Giannessi in the 1st game for 2-0 lead but from 3-1 Sumit lost next five games .. In that, Sumit lost his serve in the 6th and the 8th games ... Sumit missed a huge opportunity of making a winning start on his grand slam debut.


At $469K Sydney International, Australia

[R1] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Ivan Dodig (CRO)/ Fernando Verdasco (ESP) 64 64
[QF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Nicholas Monroe (USA) 76(5) 76(5)

[SF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs (1) Lukasz Kubot (AUT)/ Marcelo Melo (BRA)

Rohan and Edouard r in the semis and will be facing top-seed Kubot and Melo ... In the quarters, they defeated Martin and Monroe in the two tie-breaks ... Before that, they started with the straight sets win over Dodig and Verdasco in the first round.

At $75K Canberra Challenger 2018, Australia

[R1] (2) Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (WC) Jeremy Beale (AUS)/ Thomas Fancutt (AUS) 63 61

[QF] (2) Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Andreas Seppi (ITA)/ Gavin Van Peperzeel (AUS)

Divij and Erlich scored an easy win over a local wild-card pair in the first round ... Next, they r facing Seppi and Van Peperzeel.

At $50K+H Bangkok-1A Challenger 2018, Thailand

[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Ti Chen (TPE)/ Flavio Cipolla (ITA)

[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Pedro Martinez (ESP)

Jeevan-Chris started with a dominating win losing only two games against experienced Ti Chen and Cipolla ... Next, they r facing Spanish pair.

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