Saturday, February 24, 2018

Tennis News

At $3M Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships 2018, UAE

[Q1] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,101) bt Ivan Dodig (CRO,UNR) 62 61
[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,216) l (4) Blaz Kavcic (SLO,109) 62 26 0-4 retd.

[Q2] (2) Yuki Bhambri (IND,101) vs (7) Yannick Maden (BEL,142)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs (4) Raven Klaasen (RSA)/ Michael Venus (NZL)
[R1] (WC) Jamie Cerretani (USA)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Karen Khachanov (RUS)/ Benoit Paire (FRA)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Yuichi Sugita (JPN) vs Marcin Matkowski (POL)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)

Yuki scored a impressive win against top doubles and former top-30 singles player Dodig ... IN the first set, Yuki was a break down 0-2 but after that, he won 12 games from next 13 games played ... In the final qualifying, he is facing Belgian Maden ... Sumit started with winning the first set but after that he lost the second and retired from the match with respartory infection, when he was 0-4 down.

In the doubles, Lee has received the wild-card with Cerretani and they r playing Khachanov and Paire ... Divij is playing with Japanese Sugita and they r facing experienced Aisam and Matkowski.


At $1.7M Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC 2018, Acapulco, Mexico

[Q1] (6) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,140) l Kevin King (USA,179) 36 06

Pretty bad loss for RamK against Kevin King.

At $75K Yokohama Challenger 2018, Japan

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,242) vs (1) Jrdan Thompson (AUS,95)

Doubles
[R1] (2) N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) vs Tobias Kamke (GER)/ Tim Puetz (GER)

A tough match for Prajnesh against in-form Thompson.
This week, Bala is playing with Uchiyama and they r the 2nd seeds ... They can struggle against German pair as this is new pairing.

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