Asian Challengers July-October 2017

[jaydeep]

Good start of the day, today our players r playing in four finals ... 1-0, still 3 to go.

Saki and VSP lifted the title beating Japanese pair in the two tie-breaks ... This was a really good week for Saki, as he is coming out of the injury and didn't have good results in the singles or the doubles before this tournament ... So hopefully this title win will help him to give required boost performing better in the singles.

At $50K+H Ho Chi Minh City Challenger 2017, Vietnam

Doubles Final
Saketh Myneni (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt Ben McLachlan (JPN)/ Go Soeda (JPN) 76(3) 76(5)

[jaydeep]

Prajnesh is facing a qualifier ... In the doubles, again Jeevan-Chris r top-seed and they r facing Ghedin and Shyla ... Vishnu-Bala r unseeded and facing 2nd seed Taipei pair.

At $75K Shenzhen 2 Challenger 2017, China

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,229) vs Qualifier

Doubles
[QF] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR)
[R1] (2) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) vs Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND)

[sameerph]

Good title win for Saki and VSP. Good match practice for Saki and hope he does well in singles too at Indian challengers.

VSP may be moving to being a doubles specialist. He has good results in challenger doubles this year and his singles career is not going anywhere.

[PKBasu]

Congrats to Saketh/VSP for winning the doubles title in a strong Challenger field.

[sameerph]

Both Vishnu and Balaji lost in second round of qualifying at Shenzhen.

At $75K Shenzhen 2 Challenger 2017, China

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,262) vs. (Q) Milan Niesten (NED,727)

[Mohit Dahiya 2345]

prajnesh won his match easily. He dominated the whole match winning it 6-0, 6-4 . Plays winner of youzhny vs moriya and that will be probably be youzhny

[jaydeep]

Prajnesh started with comfortable straight sets win over a Dutch qualifier ... Next, he is having a tough challenge of former top-10 Russian player, Mikhail Youzhny.

At $75K Shenzhen 2 Challenger 2017, China

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,262) bt (Q) Miliaan Niesten (NED,727) 60 64

[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,262) vs (1) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS,87)

[Mohit Dahiya 2345]

I think prajnesh stands no chance against youzhny who has been in splendid form winning back to back titles in ningbo and Vietnam . Anyway to Prajnesh

[PKBasu]

Very tough match against the in-form former world #8 Youzhny. But Prajnesh should take heart from the magnificent fight that Sumit put up against him after easily losing the first set.

Prajnesh has climbed back to 253 in the live rankings.

[knarayen]

I think Prajnesh may give a bit of a scare to Youzhny...if not actually win against him.

Prof

[sameerph]

Top seeds Jeevan and Christopher lost in first round but Vishnu-Bala had nice upset win over second seeds.

At $75K Shenzhen 2 Challenger 2017, China

[R1] (1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) l. Riccardo Ghedin (ITA)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR) 64 67(10) 7-10

[R1] Vishnu Vardhan ( IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) d. (2) Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE)/ Hsien-Yin Peng (TPE) 57 63 10-8

Next,

[QF] Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) vs. Teymuraz Gabashvli (RUS) / Hubert Hurkacz (POL)

[jaydeep]

Prajnesh had a tough challenge of Mikhail Youzhny ... He gave a decent performance in the second set after losing the first set.

At $75K Shenzhen 2 Challenger 2017, China

[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,262) l (1) Mikhail Youzhny (RUS,87) 26 46

[jaydeep]

Vishnu-Bala r in the semis with the straight sets win over Gabashvili and Hurkacz.

At $75K Shenzhen 2 Challenger 2017, China

[QF] Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) bt (ALT) Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/ Hubert Hurkacz (POL) 64 64

[PKBasu]

Two wins over good pairs by Vishnu/Balaji.
Good chance for another title this week.

[jaydeep]

Next, they r facing 3rd seed Cerretani and Matsui.

At $75K Shenzhen 2 Challenger 2017, China

[SF] Vishnu Vardhan (IND)/ N. Sriram Balaji (IND) vs (3) James Cerretani (USA)/ Toshihide Matsui (JPN)