ATP Grass season 2017-w/c 15/7 Newport HOF

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ATP Grass season 2017-w/c 15/7 Newport HOF

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The grass season begins with the Surbiton Challenger in the upcoming week. Yuki Bhambri will be playing singles with his PR, and Ankita Raina is in the final round of singles qualifying. DiPu are the defending doubles champions, so it'll be interesting to see whether or not they will come out to defend that title.

<edit> Website for the Summer Series - https://www.lta.org.uk/major-events/aeg ... hy-series/ - Samarth
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DiPu should play here because with the rain today it will still be qualifying on Monday so doubles might not start till Wed.

By the way, why use PR for this without any warm up? Would have made more sense to me to play the qualifying.

As posted by Sameer in the player thread:
At $100K ITF Women, Surbiton (Grass)

[Q1] (3) Ankita RAINA (IND,266) d. Laura DEIGMAN (GBR,999) 62 62

[Q2] (3) Ankita RAINA (IND,266) d. Monique ADAMCZAK (AUS,694) 75 76(5)

[Q3] (3) Ankita RAINA (IND,266) vs. (7) Dayana YASTREMSKA (UKR.325)

Dayana was a junior Wimbledon finalist last year. So, it is a tough match for Ankita in her effort to qualify for this big challenger.
[Q3] Raina, Ankita[3]IND lost to Yastremska, Dayana[7]UKR 3-6, 4-6

Mens draw is out. Tough, tough tournament. http://www.protennislive.com/posting/2017/7297/mds.pdf

Yuki gets 19 yo, ranked 131 in the world Duckhee Lee (KOR) in R1
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Incredibly tough tournament, but thankfully the prize money is meaningful too (Euro 127,000). The eighth seed is ranked 94!
Yuki has a tough R1, but not unwinnable. The potential R2 opponent is tougher -- grass ace Dustin Brown (who must first overcome Polansky, the guy who beat Yuki at Roland Garros).
Yuki has no option but to use his PR now, as his period for using his protected ranking runs out in the next couple of weeks.
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Not expecting much from yuki on grass season. But he should be able to win a few rounds.
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No DiPu in the doubles but we do have:

Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan/Dustin Brown vs Ken & Neal Skupski

Aisam and Marcus Daniell are top seeds and potential R2 opponents for Jeevan.

There are tough tournaments and then there is this one.
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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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Pretty astonishing coup by Jeevan to get Dustin Brown as his partner on grass.
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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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At $150K Surbiton Challenger 2017, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] (PR) Yuki Bhambri (IND,245) vs Duckhee Lee (KOR,131)

Doubles
[R1]Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Dustin Brown (GER) vs Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR)
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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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Ankita-Emily r facing Russian pair in the first round.

At $100K ITF Women Tournament 2017, Surbiton (Grass)

[R1] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) vs Anna Blinkova (RUS)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS)
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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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Yuki plays today on Court 1 - not before 1.30pm

<edit>Court 1 not starting till 3pm. Forecast is okay for the evening so should get on around 5.30pm

Ankita and Jeevan are playing their doubles today too - Court TBA and not before ???

Manchester has announced live streaming. Unfortunately no mens tournament there this year.

http://www.itftennis.com/procircuit/new ... -live.aspx
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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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Singles has been cancelled for today but doubles is still on. https://twitter.com/atpchallenger/statu ... 7023624194

Jeevan is on now. 1 break each in the 1st set.
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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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Yes, live stream on the ATP challenger page of court 1-

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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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7-6(5) Got the only mini break at 6-5.
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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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After losing the second set, Jeevan-Dustin saved a match point at 8-9 before converting their first match point ... Good win against big serving Skupski brothers.

At $150K Surbiton Challenger 2017, Great Britain (Grass)

[R1] Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Dustin Brown (GER) bt Ken Skupski (GBR)/ Neal Skupski (GBR) 76(5) 67(3) 9-11
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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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Good win over tough pair. I remember DiPu beating this pair in last year's final in this challenger in a close match. Good to see that that DiPu have moved ahead to a higher level while Skupskis are still here.

If the weather was dry why did they cancel today's singles matches ? Now there is not even 1 singles match played till Thursday
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Re: ATP Grass season 2017 - Surbiton 3/6-11/6

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Fantastic to log on and read they won. Great win against a tough Brit pair on their home turf. Aisam/Daniell came back to win in STB so sets up another tough match on the 2R.

Unfortunately
[R1] Ankita Raina (IND)/ Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) lost to Anna Blinkova (RUS)/ Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 4-6, 5-7
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