Monday, May 21, 2018

Tennis News

At Davis Cup 2018 - World Group Playoff,

Serbia has decided to play tie on an indoor clay court in Kraljevo on 14-16 September 2018 ... The tie was tough but after court selection becomes lot tougher.

At French Open 2018, Roland Garros, France

[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,226) l (10) Martin Klizan (SVK,121) 64 46 16
[Q1] (12) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,124) l Jay Clarke (GBR,228) 36 75 16
[Q1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,175) bt Salvatore Caruso (ITA,229) 64 64

Prajnesh scored straight sets win over Italian Caruso ... In both sets, Prajnesh took a break advantage and kept that winning the match ... After winning the first set he broke Caruso in the 5th game to lead 3-2 and kept that advantage for winning the match.

RamK started breaking Jay to lead 2-0 but afterwards Jay took a control and won six games of next seven games for winning the set ... In the second set, RamK broke Jay in the 7th game, 4-3, but lost his serve in the next game, 4-all ... RamK again broke Caruso in the 11th and then held his serve for taking the match into decider ... But after that RamK struggled with his game and lost the final set easily.

Sumit was in control for one and half sets against in-form Klizan but after that Klizan played a very high quality tennis to win it ... He simply showed why he was junior French open champion and former top-25 player ... In the first set, Sumit broke Klizan in the 3rd game but failed to hold his serve in next game, 2-all ... Sumit again broke Klizan in the 7th game, 4-3, this time he managed to hold this break advantage for winning the set ... In the second set, Sumit broke Klizan in the 3rd game to lead 2-1 but when Sumit was 4-2 up Klizan raised his game ... He won next nine games, so won the second set 4-6 and was leading 0-5 ... Klizan won the final set comfortably, but still it was good outing for Sumit to take positives from this match as he stretched this quality clay court specialist.


At €501K Lyon Open 2018, France

[R1] Fabrice Martin (FRA)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)/ Jackson Withrow (USA) 76(6) 76(5)
[R1] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) bt (WC) Gregoire Barrere (FRA)/ Tristan Lamasine (FRA) 36 61 10-5

[QF] Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Divij Sharan (IND) vs Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR)
[QF] (2) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) vs Roman Jebavy (CZE)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED)

Fabrice-Purav scored a hard fought win over Podlipnik-Castillo and Withrow in two tie-breaks.

Rohan-Edouard made a strong comeback after losing the first set ... They won the second and the match tie-break comfortably ... Next, they r facing Dutch-Czech pair.

In the quarters, Divij and Garcia-Lopez r facing Skupski brothers.

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