British Challengers (grass), June, 2018

[meyyis]

At $150K Ilkley Trophy2018, Great Britain

Doubles

Our doubles pairs continue their march unhindered and hope Balaji and Vishnu make it 3 in 3, when they play their R1 later today.
In Live rankings Jeevan moves up to 98 and take the Ind-5 position ahead of Vishnu at 109 and Balaji at 115. Vishnu and Balaji have to defend 90 points this week.

[R1] Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. Hubert Hurkacz (POL)/ Evan King (USA) : 6-4, 6-4
[R1] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) d. Peter Polansky (CAN)/ Matt Reid (AUS) : 6-1, 6-4
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs Luke Bambridge (GBR)/ Jonny O'Mara (GBR)


Career Highs in Doubles rankings (Live) this week:
Divij Sharan moves upto a CH of 41 (Ind-2), VSP is at a CH of 204 (Ind-8) and a win in his QF match next, will move him into Top 200 and Arjun Khade is at a CH of 230 (Ind-9)

[bujilover]

Excellent win for our boys, Vishnu and Balaji, eliminating Surbiton Challenger winners.

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) 4-6 6-3 10-7 Luke Bambridge (GBR)/ Jonny O'Mara (GBR)

[jaydeep]

Prarthana started with a tight win partnering her new partner Fujiwara against American pair ... I think, last week's title win boosted her confidence and helped her in closing this tight match ... Next, they r facing 4th seed Russian pair.

At $100K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Ilkley, Great Britain

[R1] Rika Fujiwara (JPN)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) bt Desirae Krawczyk (USA)/ Ingrid Neel (USA) 75 67(6) 10-7

[QF] Rika Fujiwara (JPN)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) vs (4) Valeria Savinykh (RUS)/ Yana Sizikova (RUS)

[jayakris]

Very nice to see Prarthana back to winning ways. It was a very long losing streak that she had.

[meyyis]

At $150K Ilkley Trophy2018, Great Britain

Doubles

A facile straight sets win for Balaji and Vishnu over higher ranked French pair of Jonathan Eysseric and Hugo Nys to move into Semi Finals.

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) d. Jonathan Eysseric (FRA)/ Hugo Nys(FRA) : 6-3, 7-6
[QF] Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs Frederik Nielsen (DEN)/ Joe Salisbury(GBR)
[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) d. Liam Broady (GBR)/ Scott Clayton (GBR)

[PKBasu]

[QF] Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. Frederik Nielsen (DEN)/ Joe Salisbury(GBR) 63 76(7)

So Jeevan manages to scalp a former Wimbledon doubles champion!

[suresh]

That is a very good win for Austin and Jeevan!

[bujilover]

Wish Divij entered here and was part of the other non-Indian quarter, we would have dreamed of seeing an an-Indian (involving) SFs here.

[meyyis]

At $150K Ilkley Trophy2018, Great Britain

Doubles

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) d. Jonathan Eysseric (FRA)/ Hugo Nys(FRA) : 6-3, 7-6
[QF] Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. Frederik Nielsen (DEN)/ Joe Salisbury(GBR) : 6-3, 7-6
[QF] (3) Purav Raja (IND)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) l. Liam Broady (GBR)/ Scott Clayton (GBR) : 3-6, 6-7

Up Next,

[SF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Vishnu Vardhan (IND) vs. Kevin Kraweitz (GER) / Andreas Mies (GER)
[SF] Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) vs. Liam Broady (GBR)/ Scott Clayton (GBR)

[PKBasu]

Purav/JP lost their QF to Broady/Clayton 36 67(6) in the QF, and the winners will play Jeevan/Austin next. (Meyyis beat me to it!)
Jeevan is back in the top-100 of the live doubles rankings (just behind Austin), while Vishnu and Balaji have slipped out of the top-100.

[meyyis]

At $100K ITF Women's Tournament 2018, Ilkley, Great Britain

Prarthana and Fujiwara played another tight match but this time couldn't get across the line in the MTB.

[QF] Rika Fujiwara (JPN)/ Prarthana Thombare (IND) l. (4) Valeria Savinykh (RUS)/ Yana Sizikova (RUS) : 4-6, 7-5, 8-10

[PKBasu]

Jeevan/Austin are through to the Ilkley doubles final, after beating Broady/Clayton 75 63.

But Vishnu/Balaji narrowly lost their SF in two tiebreakers 67(2) 67(4)

[jaydeep]

Jeevan-Krajicek lifted the title at Ilkley beating German pair comfortably ... Jeevan and Krajicek pairing can be dangerous floater in Wimbledon qualifying and in the main draw.


P.C. to Ilkley Trophy twitter handle

At $150K Ilkley Trophy2018, Great Britain

Doubles Final
Austin Krajicek (USA)/ Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) bt Kevin Krawietz (GER)/ Andreas Mies (GER) 63 63

[suresh]

Congratulations to Jeevan and Austin for doing one better than last week. Are they planning on playing together for long?

[sameerph]

Good to see Jeevan bouncing back in last couple of months after few lean months before that. This is his sixth challenger doubles title apart from Chennai ATP title and he has won all the 7 titles with different partners. Hope he now plays together with Austin for some time.