Thursday, January 04, 2018

Tennis News

At Asia/Oceania Group I in Fed Cup 2018, New Delhi, India

Indian Women's Team - Ankita Raina (259), Karman Kaur Thandi (285), Pranjala Yadlapalli (482) and Prarthana Thombare (D 144)
Reserved - Rutuja Bhosale (536), Zeel Desai (625)

No surprise in Fed Cup selection as our all top three singles players get selected and the second best doubles player Prarthana selected after Sania withdrew due to injury ... Rutuja and Zeel get selected as the reserve players.

At $561K Tata Open Maharashtra 2018, Pune, India

[QF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt (1) Robert Lindstedt (SWE)/ Franko Skugor (CRO) 75 26 10-6
[QF] (4) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Gilles Simon (FRA) 36 57

[SF] Yuki Bhambri (IND)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA)/ Gilles Simon (FRA)

Divij scored an huge upset win with Yuki against the top-seeds in the match tie-break ... After winning the tight first set our pair lost the second set easily ... But they recovered to win the match tie-break convincingly ... Next, they r facing big serving French pair of Simon-Herbert ... Simon-Herbert defeated defending champions Rohan and Jeevan in the straight sets.

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