Australian open 2019

[sameerph]

Live stream is available for all the matches here -

AO wild card playoff

Pranjala's match on court 2. After winning the first set 6-2, Pranjala lost the second set 2-6 and is down 2-3 in third set.She may be having some injury issues. Not moving so well and took a medical time out holding her back in this set.

[sameerph]

Panjala was serving for the match at 5-4 but got broken at 30.

[sameerph]

Pranjala does manage to pull thru in the third set tie break.

[R1] Pranjala Yadlapalli (IND,280) d. Mana Ayukawa (JPN, 422) 62 26 76(3)

[Rajiv]

And Colin Sinclair completes a straight sets win over Di Wu. 6-2 , 6-3 , is he going to be the dark horse and the surprise package of the tournament.

This tournament offers one of the easiest passage to a GS entry and really cannot understand why our guys ignore it , the tournament also offers unique chance for even some unknowns to thrive , Purav Raja almost made it to the finals , with notable scalps on the way and at a time when he had given up on his singles career.

[bujilover]

Glad Pranjala pulled off a close win and now she will face an unseeded player in the QF that upset the 3rd seed Chinese Fang Yin Xun.

[QF] (7) Pranjala YADLAPALLI (IND,283) vs Chihiro MURAMATSU (JPN,412)

[sameerph]

This tournament offers one of the easiest passage to a GS entry and really cannot understand why our guys ignore it , the tournament also offers unique chance for even some unknowns to thrive , Purav Raja almost made it to the finals , with notable scalps on the way and at a time when he had given up on his singles career.

True, I can understand for Prajnesh who had played so many matches in last 2 weeks. But, for Saketh and Sumit who will not even get a chance to compete in the AO qualifying draw this was a golden opportunity to try to make it to AO,

[RohitG]

Rawat gets broken again in the second set after losing the first.

[sameerph]

He lost in straight sets.

[R1] Siddharth Rawat (IND,688) l. (2) Zhe Zhang (IND,220) 46 26

[sameerph]

Arjun too lost in straight sets.

[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND,352) l. (7) Renta Tokuda (JPN,298) 67(3) 16

Expected a better fight from Arjun against a slightly higher ranked player. Arjun's singles game has declined a bit in the past few months.

[bujilover]

Boys' Singles QF:

[1] Mann SHAH (IND,99) 6-1 7-6 Jian Keong, Takeshi KOEY (MAS,594)

[jaydeep]

Yes, Arjun is struggling in the singles.
Bala and Arjun saved multiple match points to beat a local pairing of Di Wu and Rigele Te in the long match tie-break ... In the semis, they r facing the local top-seeds Gong and Ze.

[QF] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) bt Rigele Te (CHN)/ Di Wu (CHN) 61 46 16-14

[SF] (3) N.Sriram Balaji (IND)/ Arjun Kadhe (IND) vs (1) Mao-Xin Gong (CHN)/ Zhang Ze (CHN)

[Atithee]

Does the doubles team get an automatic entry into Australian Open too?

[PKBasu]

Yes, that is how Yuki Bhambri/Michael Venus played in the AO, and made R3 of the main draw, in 2014.
Venus, of course, has since become a top doubles player (and won a Slam doubles title). But it all began for him in partnership with Yuki at the AO wildcard playoff!

[PKBasu]

Bhambri/Venus had demonstrated their potency by beating 10th seeded Rojer/Tecau in straight sets in R2 at the AO 2014.

[jayakris]

Yes, that is how Yuki Bhambri/Michael Venus played in the AO, and made R3 of the main draw, in 2014. Venus, of course, has since become a top doubles player (and won a Slam doubles title). But it all began for him in partnership with Yuki at the AO wildcard playoff!

Yuki is a really good doubles player, and if he ever decides to focus on doubles, he will easily be top 25 or something.