Saturday, February 10, 2018

Tennis News

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

Relegation Play-off
India bt Chinese Taipei 2-0

[M1] Karman Kaur Thandi (IND,284) bt Pei-Chi Lee (TPE,454) 76(4) 63
[M2] Ankita Raina (IND,253) bt Chieh-Yu Hsu (TPE,377) 64 57 61

Ankita scored a win after almost 3 hours over Hsu ... Ankita must be tired as this was her 6th match in four days ... Both players made numerous errors and traded lot of breaks but in end Ankita prevailed, and keeping India safe in Group I ... Before that, Karman scored straight sets win over Lee.

At $561K Sofia Open 2018, Bulgaria

[SF] Scott Lipsky (USA)/ Divij Sharan (IND) l (4) Robin Haase (NED)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 46 26

Divij-Scott lost against more experienced tour pair n the straight sets.

At $50K+H Chennai Challenger 2018, India

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,388) vs (Q) Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,457)
[R1] (WC) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,876) vs Danilo Petrovic (SRB,250)
[R1] (PR) Saketh Myneni (IND,623) vs (Q) Arjun Kadhe (IND,565)
[R1] (WC) Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND,1132) vs Lucas Catarina (MON,365)
[R1] (8) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,242) vs Pedro Martinez (ESP,252)
[R1] (5) Sumit Nagal (IND,220) vs Antoine Escoffier (FRA,371)
[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,429) vs Gerard Granollers (ESP,357)
[R1] (Q) Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (IND,1367) vs Ivan Nedelko (RUS,275)
[R1] (WC) N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,524) vs (3) Duckhee Lee (KOR,207)
[R1] (WC) Dhakshineswar Suresh (IND,1886) vs (Q) Siddharth Rawat (IND,533)
[R1] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,112) vs Bernabe Zapata Miralles (ESP,270)

Doubles
[R1] Chandril Sood (IND)/ Lakshit Sood (IND) vs (1) Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA)/ Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA)
[R1] Kunal Anand (IND)/ Anvit Bendre (IND) vs Nikola Cacic (SRB)/ Ivan Nedelko (RUS)
[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Dhakshineswar Suresh (IND)
[R1] Pedro Martinez (ESP)/ Sumit Nagal (IND) vs Tuna Altuna (TUR)/ Mohamed Safwat (EGY)
[R1] (4) Luca Margaroli (SUI)/ Saketh Myneni (IND) vs (WC) Adil Kalyanpur (IND)/ Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND)
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Dmitry Popko (KAZ)/ Bernabe Zapata Miralles (ESP)

Good to see big Indian contingent playing in this home challenger and our three players are seeded ... RamK has skipped this challenger as he is training in US and planning to play ew York ATP qualifying.

Arjun, Siddharth and Abhinav qualified for the main-draw ... Arjun and Saki's match will be the match of first round ... Sid is facing Suresh and young Abhinav having tough one against Russian.

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