Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

[PKBasu]

Brands saved a set point at 30-40, 5-6, but managed to hold. Onto the tiebreak now, second set.

[meyyis]

Saketh manages to win the Tie-Break at 12-10 and take the second set. On to the decider now.

[Rajiv]

Yess..
Second set to Saki with a keenly fought TB which could have gone either way.

[fabshab]

Brands just gifted away the second set to Saki. He served as many as 10 double faults in last 2 service games and the tiebreaker.

He had 5 match points in total 2 of which were on his on serve and he double faulted both

[meyyis]

Saketh is up by a break in the decider and it is 4-2 now with Brands to serve.

[PKBasu]

[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND, 357) vs. Daniel Brands (GER, 252) 46 76(10) 55

Saketh serving now at 4-3 in the final set.
Brands converts the first break chance he had in the set. 4-4
Brands holds, 4-5 (Saketh has converted one of his 6 break chances in the third set, Brands converted the only one he had).
Saketh holds. 5-5

[jaydeep]

Not a bad match for Saki against former top-50 caliber Daniel Brands ... Brands broke Saki in the 12th game when he was serving for staying in the match and completed victory in almost 2 hours and 30 minutes.

At $125K Astana Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan

[QF] (Q) Saketh Myneni (IND,357) l Daniel Brands (GER,252) 46 76(10) 57

[sameerph]

After being 4-2 up in the final set, Saketh lost 5 out of next 6 games. Still Saki showed that he is pretty much back to playing at top 200 level now.

Hope Arjun takes the doubles title and enters top 200. He clearly has top 100 or even top 50 level potential in doubles.

[jayakris]

A big opportunity lost by Saketh. He needs to deseparately move up to top-250 (in which he deserves to be) quickly, to make things easier for challenger entries.

[Sin Hombre]

Looks like Saketh is not going the easy route of playing the big money and big point Chinese CHs in the coming weeks and instead go to North America.

[sameerph]

Yes, Saketh is playing Binghampton and Lexington challenger for the next 2 weeks, tougher than the Chinese challengers which begin from July 30.

[jaydeep]

Arjun and his partner Denis Yevseyev lost in two tight sets against the 3rd seeds experienced pairing of Mikhail Elgin and Yaraslav Shyla.

At $125K Astana Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan

Doubles Final
Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) l (3) Mikhail Elgin (RUS)/ Yaraslav Shyla (BLR) 57 67(6)


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