Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Tennis News

At €561K BMW Open 2018, Munich, Germany

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Tim Puetz (GER)/ Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) 57 76(5) 5-10

Bala and Vishnu lost in a close match against German pair ... After losing the first set our pair tried fightback winning the second set in the tie-break ... In the match tie-break, they were 0-4 down but made it 4-all ... After that German pair took control and won 6 of next 7 points for winning the match.

At €486K TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open 2018, Turkey

[QF] (2) Marcin Matkowski POL)/ Divij Sharan (IND) bt Dusan Lajovic (SRB)/ Viktor Troicki (SRB) w/o

Divij and Matkowski received walkover by Serbian pair due to Troicki's arm injury..

At $125K Kunming Open 2018, Anning, China

[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,193) l (2) Yafan Wang (CHN,86) 67(4) 57

Doubles
[R1] Prarthana Thombare (IND)/ Fang Ying Xun (CHN) l Elitsa Kostova (BUL)/ Aleksandrina Naydenova (BUL) 57 64 7-10

Ankita lost in two tight sets against Wang ... Ankita had her chances to win both the sets as she was a break up early but Wang played better on key points ... A good match against a top 100 player, but she needs to start winning these matches.

Prarthana and Xun lost in the match tie-break against Bulgarian pair.


At $75K Savannah Challenger 2018, Georgia, USA

[R1] (3) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Nick Chappell (USA)/ Miles Seemann (USA) 36 63 10-4

[QF] (3) Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Robert Galloway (USA)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE)

A good comeback win by Jeevan-Enrique against American pair ... Next, they r facing Siljestrom-Galloway.

At $75K+H Ostrava Challenger 2018, Czech Republic

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Pedro Martinez (ESP) bt Zdenek Kolar (CZE)/ Adam Pavlasek (CZE) 63 67(6) 10-3

[QF] Sumit Nagal (IND)/ Pedro Martinez (ESP) vs (1) Tomasz Bednarek (POL)/ Andreas Mies (GER)

Sumit scored a win in the doubles with his Spaniard partner ... They had a chance of winning this match in two sets as had 2 match points in the tie-break at 6-4 but lost next 4 points to lose the set ... Sumit-Pedro recovered and dominated the match tie-break ... Next, they r facing the top-seed pair.

At $25K+H Nigeria F3 Futures 2018, Abuja

[R2] Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1075) bt (6) Kento TAKEUCHI (JPN,494) 57 63 53 retd.
[R2] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397) bt Mirko MARTINEZ (SUI,1118) 63 67(3) 61
[R2] (WC) Dalwinder SINGH (IND,1168) l (8) Jelle SELS (NED,483) 36 46

[QF] Suraj R PRABODH (IND,1075) vs (1) Youssef HOSSAM (EGY,319)
[QF] (4) Arjun KADHE (IND,397) vs (8) Jelle SELS (NED,483)

Suraj scored an impressive upset win over top-500 Japnese opponent, but next, having lot tougher match against the top-seed Egyptian ... Arjun needed three sets to win against his lower ranked Swiss opponent ... Next, he is facing top-500 Dutch player, who defeated Dalwinder.

At $25K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Tbilisi, Georgia

[R2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,531) l (3) Ekaterine Gorgodze (GEO,316) 16 06

Bad loss as Rutuja overpowered by Georgian opponent, she managed to win a single game.

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