Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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There are 3 weeks of challengers in Central Asia starting from next week. Starts with a $50K(+H) in Shymkent, Kazakhstan on Monday followed by $50K(+H) Almaty, Kazakhstan which will be followed by $75K(+H) in Fergana,Uzbekistan. 2 weeks in Kazakh are on clay while Fergana is on hard courts.

Some of our players are likely to be playing. Mostly have to come thru qualies. Only Sumit appears in the main draw entry list of Almaty.

Mukund, Arjun and Sid Rawat are playing qualies at Shymkent which starts tomorrow.

At $50K(+H) Shymkent Challenger, Kazakhstan (Clay)

[Q1] Siddharth Rawat (IND,516) vs. Rubin Statham (NZL,344)

[Q1] Arjun Kadhe (IND,366) vs. (3) Marcus Errikson (SWE,303)

[Q1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,390) vs. (WC) Bebit Zukayev (KAZ,1798)
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Re: Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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Only Mukund won his match.

At $50K(+H) Shymkent Challenger, Kazakhstan (Clay)

[Q1] Siddharth Rawat (IND,516) l. Rubin Statham (NZL,344) 36 26

[Q1] Arjun Kadhe (IND,366) l. (3) Marcus Errikson (SWE,303) 46 46

[Q1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,390) d. (WC) Bebit Zukayev (KAZ,1798) 63 62

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[Q2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,390) vs. (7) Renta Tokuda (JPN,332)
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Re: Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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Looks like these events are not being streamed via livestream.com\atp - unless I am missing something?

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Re: Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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knarayen wrote: Sat Jun 02, 2018 10:19 pm Looks like these events are not being streamed via livestream.com\atp - unless I am missing something?

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They will be once the main draw matches begin ;)
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On a day, when Mukund's first serve wasn't working too well (at 45%), Mukund managed to win!

[Q2] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,390) d (7) Renta Tokuda (JPN,332) 4-6 6-1 7-5

Next up is 20 year Wu who upset the third seed in straight sets in Q2. Let's hope that Mukund rediscovers his first serve in Q3.

[FQR] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,390) vs Tung-Lin Wu (TPE, 471)
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Re: Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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Good to see Mukund winning his matches ... Arjun is playing in the doubles with local player and they r facing experienced players, Ti Chen and Statham.

At $50K+H Shymkent Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan (Clay)

Doubles
[R1] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) vs Ti Chen (TPE)/ Rubin Statham (NZL)
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Re: Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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Unfortunately, Mukund could not qualify for the main draw.

At $50K+H Shymkent Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan (Clay)

[FQR] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,390) l. Tung-Lin Wu (TPE, 471) 64 36 26

Again only 47% first served in which proved to be his undoing.
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Re: Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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A really good win for Arjun and his partner Yevseyev against experienced players ... Next, they r facing 2nd seed Japanese pair.

At $50K+H Shymkent Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan

[R1] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) bt Ti Chen (TPE)/ Rubin Statham (NZL) 61 64

[QF] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) vs (2) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN)
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Arjun and his partner Yevseyev followed their R1 win with another facile straight sets win over the second seeds in the QF.

At $50K+H Shymkent Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan

[QF] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) d. (2) Toshihide Matsui (JPN)/ Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) : 7-5, 6-3
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Arjun Kadhe at a new career-high doubles ranking of 251 (vs a previous CH of 288).
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In the SF, Thursday evening,
(WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) vs Lucas Miedler (AUT)/ Sebastian Ofner (AUT)
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(WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND)/ Denis Yevseyev (KAZ) l. Lucas Miedler (AUT)/ Sebastian Ofner (AUT) : 2-6, 4-6
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Re: Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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Our all three players lost in the first qualifying round ... Mukund won the first set tie-break, but after losing the second set he folded easily against Manezes.

At $50K+H Almaty Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan

[Q1] Arjun Kadhe (IND,366) l Daniel Masur (GER,367) 46 57
[Q1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,516) l (2) Yusuka Takahashi (JPN,285) 67(2) 26
[Q3] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,390) l (7) Joao Menezes (BRA,321) 76(4) 57 06
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Re: Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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Sumit is playing here but I feel he should have played Nottingham qualifying to gain grass court experience before big W qualifying ... Some strange planning by our players.

At $50K+H Almaty Challenger 2018, Kazakhstan

[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,) vs (8) Uladzimir Ignatik (BLR,202)
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Re: Kazakh/Uzbek Challengers, June 2018

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Truly asinine planning just before Wimbledon, both from the perspective of the surface and the distance from SW19!
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