Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Tennis News

At Australian Open 2018, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[R1] (5) Timea Babos (HUN)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) vs (WC) Ellen Perez (AUS)/ Andrew Whittington (AUS)

Juniors
[Q1] (10) Akanksha A Bhan (IND,116) bt Lisa Mays (AUS,216) 63 36 61

[Q2] (10) Akanksha A Bhan (IND,116) vs (8) Rina Saigo (JPN,111)

Only Rohan is playing in the MXD ... He is partnering Hungarian Timea Babos and they r facing Australian wild-card pair in the first round.

Good to see Akanksha Bhan is participating in the junior qualifying ... She started with a win against local player ... In the final qualifying, she is facing higher ranked Japanese girl, Rina Saigo.


At $50K+H Koblenz Challenger 2018, Germany

[R1] (WC) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l (WC) Jan Choinski (GER)/ Marvin Moeller (GER) 46 67(7)

Vishnu-Bala's new season didn't started on the right note, as another first round loss for them against local wild-card pair.

At $15K China F2 Futures 2018, Anning (Clay)

[R2] (Q) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1444) bt Mats Rosenkranz (GER,951) 76(4) 67(2) 60

[QF] (Q) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1444) vs (3) Steven Diez (CAN,312)

Another upset win by young Nitin against top-1000 ranked his German opponent ... The first 2 sets went to the tie-breaks, which both players split ... But Nitin runaway in the third and bagelled his opponent ... In the quarters, he is facing top-300 type Canadian Diez.

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