October / November 2018 Challengers

[Omkara]

2018 Monterrey Challenger

Doubles R1

(1)Paes / Reyes Varela (IND/MEX) vs Ferrer / Martinez Portero (ESP)
Menendez Maceiras / Vervoort (ESP/NED) vs (3)Arevalo / Nedunchezhiyan (ESA/IND)

[prasen9]

Just a nitpick. This is a good idea but would the mods please put the year in the title?

[sameerph]

Done. There are more challengers in Asia this month. We can open a separate thread for that and keep this thread for North American challengers or discuss all in this one thread.

[jaydeep]

Jeevan started with straight sets win with his new partner Marcelo Arevalo ... Next, they r facing Martinez and Lorenzi.

At $150K+H Monterrey Challenger 2018, Mexico

[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) bt Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (ESP)/Mark Vervoort (NED) 62 76(5)

[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) vs Paolo Lorenzi (ITA)/ Luis David Martinez (VEN)

[jaydeep]

Lee-Miguel started with straight sets win over the Spanish pair ... Both sets, they won with a single break and didn't lose their service game in this match ... In the quarters, they r facing the South Americans, Quiroz and Behar.

At $150K+H Monterrey Challenger 2018, Mexico

[R1] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) bt David Ferrer (ESP)/ Pedro Martinez Portero (ESP) 63 64

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) vs Ariel Behar (URU)/ Roberto Quiroz (ECU)

[PKBasu]

Interesting that David Ferrer hasn't actually retired; he's stopped playing on the ATP tour (and Slams) but continues to play in Challengers (both singles and doubles here).

[jaydeep]

Maybe David Ferrer is mentoring Pedro Martinez.

[ornatebrute]

Interesting that David Ferrer hasn't actually retired; he's stopped playing on the ATP tour (and Slams) but continues to play in Challengers (both singles and doubles here).

Oh yes. He has only retired from Slams. He'll be playing Hopman Cup, Auckland, Buenos Aires, Acapulco, Barcelona and Madrid. And officially retired after that. These tournaments are the ones where he has consistently done well at, I guess.

[jaydeep]

Jeevan and Marcelo r in the semis with straight sets win ... Next, they r facing Begemann and Polasek, who scored an upset win over the 2nd seeds Granollers brothers.

At $150K+H Monterrey Challenger 2018, Mexico

[QF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) bt Paolo Lorenzi (ITA)/ Luis David Martinez (VEN) 63 64

[SF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) vs Andre Begemann (GER)/ Filip Polasek (SVK)

[jaydeep]

Leander and Miguel scored a comeback win after losing the first set tie-break against Quiroz and Behar ... They r facing the Aussie pair for a place in the final.

At $150K+H Monterrey Challenger 2018, Mexico

[QF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) bt Ariel Behar (URU)/ Roberto Quiroz (ECU) 67(4) 64 10-5

[SF] (1) Leander Paes (IND)/ Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) vs Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS)/ Matt Reid (AUS)

[Rajiv]

Yuki's name appears in the Liuizhou Challenger (2nd of the 3 Challengers in China) commencing on 22nd Oct , but it all depends whether he turns up to play , If at all he were to play in luizhou he would surely play the next one in Shenzen.

[Omkara]

At $150K+H Monterrey Challenger 2018, Mexico


[SF] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) vs Andre Begemann (GER)/ Filip Polasek (SVK) 6-3,7-6(9)

[sameerph]

3 Indians played in qualies of Tashkent challenger but only Bala went thru to Q2.

At $75K(+H) Tashkent Challenger, Uzbekistan

[Q1] (7) Sumit Nagal (IND,317) l. Rubin Statham (NZL,545) 63 16 16

[Q1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,660) d. Pavel Kotov (RUS,360) 75 64

[Q1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,484) l. Mathias Bourge (FRA,315) 67(3) 26

Another disappointing loss for Sumit. I guess there is some injury issue with him. He completely dominated the first set with 2 breaks and then just fell apart after that . This is happening way too often in his matches where he starts strong and then falls apart indicating some sort of injury issue.

Mukund is also playing more like old Sasi these days.

[Q2] N. Sriram Balaji (IND,660) vs. Fredrico Ferrero Silva (POR,291)

[RohitG]

Yuki's name appears in the Liuizhou Challenger (2nd of the 3 Challengers in China) commencing on 22nd Oct , but it all depends whether he turns up to play , If at all he were to play in luizhou he would surely play the next one in Shenzen.

Yeah, in fact he would be top seed being the only player from top-100 in the list. RamK and Prajnesh are in it too. Lizhou, Shenzen followed by the two Indian challengers in November seems like a good plan for all three our guys. RamK and Prajnesh both have 2 zero pointers in their 18 best tournaments, so the only way they will progress is upwards in the rankings. Yuki has 172 points to defend in the next two months. So a couple of good runs can help him seal the deal for Aus Open. Dare I say it, this is a late, backdoor sneaky chance for us to have two Indians in the top-100 if all things go our way in these four tournaments. As you say though, a lot of it will depend on whether Yuki shows up, and how physically and mentally he's fit enough to pull this off

[sameerph]

Lizhou, Shenzen followed by the two Indian challengers in November seems like a good plan for all three our guys.

There is also big $150K Ningbo Challenger the week before Lizhou where both RamK and Prajnesh have entered. So, it will be these 3 challengers and Bangalore, Pune for 5 weeks to round off the year for these 2. Hope Yuki can play 4 of those too.