Australian Open 2018

[sameerph]

There is also nice live stream available for all the courts here -

AO wild card play off

You can also rewind and watch the matches of Balaji and Vishnu today on court 2 and court 3 respectively.

Nice win by Vishnu.

[prashanthm]

Both the sets Vishnu won by breaking his opponent at 5-4*.... well played...

[knarayen]

There is also nice live stream available for all the courts here -
AO wild card play off
You can also rewind and watch the matches of Balaji and Vishnu today on court 2 and court 3 respectively.
Nice win by Vishnu.

I got to the link - how do you do a rewind? I couldnt tell from playing around with it.

[prashanthm]

There is also nice live stream available for all the courts here -
AO wild card play off
You can also rewind and watch the matches of Balaji and Vishnu today on court 2 and court 3 respectively.
Nice win by Vishnu.

I got to the link - how do you do a rewind? I couldnt tell from playing around with it.

Prof, it is a play back of each court for the entire day's matches... So, you have to fiddle with the playback control until you find the match with our guys on... I found Vishnu's on Ct3 at around the 1:30 hour mark......

[prashanthm]

Today's Schedule

Sumit is playing 2nd match on Court 5 and both the men's doubles teams are playing...

[R1] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND) v. Jurabek Karimov (UZB) - 2nd match on Court M5 (~11 AM)

[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) / Christopher Rungkat (INA) v. Hiroki Moriya (JPN) / Yusuke Takahashi (JPN) - 3rd match on Court M2 (~1 PM)

[QF] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) v. Ye Du (CHN) / Qun Gao (CHN) - 4th match on Court M5 (~2:30 PM)


Live Scores

Live Streaming

[knarayen]

thanks prashant I will keep trying.

Prof

[knarayen]

Today's Schedule
[R1] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND) v. Jurabek Karimov (UZB) - 2nd match on Court M5 (~11 AM)
[QF] (2) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) / Christopher Rungkat (INA) v. Hiroki Moriya (JPN) / Yusuke Takahashi (JPN) - 3rd match on Court M2 (~1 PM)
[QF] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) v. Ye Du (CHN) / Qun Gao (CHN) - 4th match on Court M5 (~2:30 PM)
Live Scores
Live Streaming

are the times posted here local time in Australia (Melbourne)?

[prashanthm]

are the times posted here local time in Australia (Melbourne)?

Prof, the event is being played in Zhuhai, China.
and, yes - these are local times... GMT +8 hrs

[PKBasu]

Good move by Jeevan to play doubles with Rungkat here. They would be the favourites to win it all, although the top seeded Ratiwatana twins and Vishnu/Balaji will be formidable rivals.
Yuki should definitely have turned up for singles and doubles.

[PKBasu]

Astonishingly (actually quite disgustingly), no Indian women are playing either singles or doubles here. What is Ankita upto??

[prashanthm]

[R1] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND) v. Jurabek Karimov (UZB) 57 00*

Sumit's match started a couple of mins ago, and he starts off well by breaking his opponent in the first game... *1-0

Live stream is on and working well...

Gives the break right back..... 1-1*

Karimov holds at love... 1-2

Sumit holds after a spot of bother at 30-30... 2-2

Live stream is also available on youtube... https://www.youtube.com/user/australianopentv

Sumit had a break point at 30-40, but couldn't convert....... 2-3

Sumit gets broken... 2-4..

and breaks back immediately at 15... *3-4

Sumit holds for 4-4*

Sumit had a look in on Karimov's serve at 15-30, but no luck... *4-5

Sumit was 40-0, but had to work hard to hold serve after numerous duece points... 5-5*

Easy hold for Karimov... *5-6

Sumit will serve to stay in the first set... down 0-30, 15-30 now... 30-30 with Karimov arguing a line call...30-40 with a set point to save... can't save... first set goes at 5-7...

[Sin Hombre]

Sumit saves 2 set points and stays in the set at 5-5. Looking very frustrated here.


Yuki absolutely made the correct decision to not participate here. No reason to risk 4 matches in Zhuhai at the end of the season.

[Rajiv]

Damm lost the first set..
Not a good start , looks very jaded and the spark is missing .
Hope he can recover , but to his credit the 618 ranked Uzbek is really playing well , controlling the points

[sameerph]

Uzbek Jurabek Karimov was ranked in top 10 in ITF juniors and won a couple of futures in Malaysia beating everyone ( including Arjun Kadhe) in straight sets. So, He is no easy player specially when Sumit is not playing at his best as you all seem to be suggesting.

[prashanthm]

[R1] (6) Sumit Nagal (IND) l. Jurabek Karimov (UZB) 57 46

Sumit started the second set in a similar fashion, breaking his opponent in the first game...
but this time, he consolidated well and broke again to lead 4-0 in the second set and is on his way to eating a Bagel breakfast...

Not to be - had his chances at 15-30 on Karimov's serve... *4-1 now...

Looks like I jinxed him, gets broken from 40-0...., still up a break at 4-2*

0-30 on Karimov's serve now... 30-30... 40-30... Deuece #1, Ad-in with an ace and Karimov holds... Sumit is still up a break... *4-3

poor service game from Sumit to lose serve from 30-0 up.... back on serve now at 4-4*

And an easy hold for Karimov... *4-5
Sumit has now lost 5 straight games after being 4-0 up and will serve to stay in the match...
0-15, great FH CC to make it 15-15, Karimov puts pressure on Sumit's FH from the back court to make it 15-30... great rally, but Sumit misses a volley to give Karimov 2 match points... 15-40... netted a BH and slumps to a straight set defeat against the 6' 4" Uzbek....


On to the off season training now for Sumit......