American ATP hardcourt season 2017

[jaydeep]

Jeevan played in the singles qualifying against Canadian Peter Polansky.

At $720K Memphis Open 2017, USA

[Q1] (ALT) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND,UNR) l (1) Peter Polansky (CAN,125) 36 36

[jaydeep]

Our three pairs r playing in Memphis open ... Lee is partnering Spanish Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and they r 4th seed ... Jeevan is playing with Australian Jordan Thompson.

Doubles
[R1] (4) Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Brian Baker (USA)/ Nikola Mektic (CRO)
[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS) vs Sam Querrey (USA)/ Donald Young (USA)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Scott Lipsky (USA)

[S_K_S]

That's a tough start for all. Wouldn't be surprised if we are 1/3 out of those matches.

[jaydeep]

Jeevan-Jordan lost their match in the match tie-break against Americans ... After winning the first set their challenge fizzled out in next two.

At $720K Memphis Open 2017, USA

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Jordan Thompson (AUS) l Sam Querrey (USA)/ Donald Young (USA) 63 36 3-10

[Varma]

Lee and Garcia-Lopez gave a walk-over to their opponents. I hope there no injury scare for Lee.

DiPu have just started their R1 match.

- Varma

[Varma]

...and DiPu lost in R1 as well

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l. Jonathan Erlich (ISR)/ Scott Lipsky (USA) 3-6, 4-6

Pretty disappointing display this week from all our top guns except for Rohan.

- Varma

[PKBasu]

Terrible!! Garcia-Lopez lost his R1 singles earlier to Nishioka in straight sets, so I wonder whether he picked up an injury during that match. Very unfortunate end to our interest in this tournament.

[jaydeep]

This week Lee is playing with Yen-Hsun Lu and facing American wild-card pair ... Divij-Purav r also facing Canadian wild-card pair.

At $599K Delray Beach Open 2017, Florida, USA

[R1] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (WC) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA)/ Taylor Fritz (USA)
[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) vs (WC) Philip Bester (CAN)/ Peter Polansky (CAN)

[arjun2761]

Nice win by DiPu!

[R1] Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) d (WC) Philip Bester (CAN)/ Peter Polansky (CAN) 4-6, 6-3, 10-4

[Varma]

Ranked 193 and 176 in doubles respectively, Bester and Polansky are not a pair DiPu should have struggled this hard to eek out a win. Anyway, I am happy that they won their opening round to setup a potential QF clash with Rajeev Ram and his South African partner, Raven Clasen.

- Varma

[jaydeep]

Agree with Varma, surprised to see that they stretched to the match tie-break.

[bujilover]

Bester/Polansky has won a total of 6 doubles titles in CHs and Futures as a team. I don't see why not? No doubles match is easy at the ATP level irrespective of the rankings as it happened with Kyrgios/Reid.

Next round should be interesting

[arjun2761]

[R1] Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (WC) Bjorn Fratangelo (USA)/ Taylor Fritz (USA) 7-6(7), 6-3

[PKBasu]

Good to see the straight sets win over the American young guns!

[PKBasu]

DiPu play their QF against second seeded Rajeev Ram/RavenKlaasen tonight (Thursday).
Paes/Lu await the winner of the match between the Bryans and Querrey/Donaldson early today.