[Tennis] Misc. Results for Indians abroad...

[bujilover]

Sood twins should have made use of this ITF series to bolster their rankings during the offseason.

[VReddy]

Nandini's interview: https://indiantennisdaily.wordpress.com ... ni-sharma/

[sameerph]

Excellent interview, Vishnu. Nandini has now achieved her objective of the year of getting into rankings. She is now ranked #1001 in the latest updated WTA rankings. Hope she keeps rising up the rankings next year.

[bujilover]

Mods, please dissolve this thread. It was an utterly poor performance from our players.

Moved to Misc. Results - Jaydeep

[bujilover]

2018 discussion starts with VSP and Sid Rawat playing in the $50K Bangkok CH.

At $50,000+H BANGKOK, THA

QR1

Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (526) vs [5] Dominik KOEPFER (GER,305)
Sidharth RAWAT (542) vs [WC] Chaleechan TANASUGARN (THA,NR)

Winner of both matches face off each other in QR2

[PKBasu]

Sid Rawat comfortably won his Q1 match 62 60.

[jaydeep]

Mixed results for them, as VSP lost after winning the first set against his German opponent and Sid scored expected easy win against local unranked player ... Next, Sid is facing German Koepfer.

At $50K+H Bangkok Challenger, Thailand

[Q1] Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND,526) l (5) Dominik Koepfer (GER,305) 76(7) 26 16
[Q1] Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) bt (WC) Chaleechan Tanasugarn (THA,UNR) 62 60

[Q2] Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) vs (5) Dominik Koepfer (GER,305)

[PKBasu]

Sid Rawat lost 46 46 to Koepfer, so a futile trip to Bangkok for both Indians, who aren’t in the doubles draw either.

[jaydeep]

Sid is in the final qualifying and facing Timur Khabibulin.

At $50K+H Bangkok-1A Challenger 2018, Thailand

[Q1] (1) Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) bye
[Q2] (1) Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) bt Wei-De Lin (TPE,1415) 46 61 76(6)

[Q3] (1) Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) vs (8) Timur Khabibulin (KAZ,788)

[sameerph]

Sid qualified for the main draw. Since, there will be 3 Indian players- 2 singles and 1 in doubles in the main draw, I am opening a thread for this challenger instead of discussing in separate threads.

[sameerph]

China futures related posts are moved to the new tournament thread.

Elsewhere, in Spain, Adil played as a wild card in the tournament at his base, Rafa Nadal acedemy but lost to a seed.

At $15K Spain F2 Futures, Mallorca, Spain

[R1] (WC) Adil KALYANPUR (IND,1543) l. (4) Ivan GAKHOV (RUS,292) 75 16 26

He won a round in doubles.

[R1] (WC) Adil KALYANPUR (IND) / Yunseong CHUNG (KOR) d. Claudio FORTUNA (ITA) / Francesco MONCAGATTO (ITA) 26 63 10-5

[bujilover]

Dhruthi and Riya played in a $15K ITF in Antalya, Turkey.

At $15K Antalya, Turkey

Round 1
Sadafmoh TOLIBOVA (BLR,819) 7-5 6-2 Riya BHATIA (IND,608)
Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND,729) 6-2 6-4 Ilay YORUK (TUR,1115)

Round 2
Rebecca MARINO (CAN,UNR) former #38 6-3 6-1 Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND,729)

Doubles

R1 Riya BHATIA (IND) / Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND) 7-5 5-7 [10-7] Mihaela DJAKOVIC (SRB) / Aleksandra POSPELOVA (RUS)
QF Ipek OZ (TUR) / Melis SEZER (TUR) [3] 6-1 6-1 Riya BHATIA (IND) / Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND)

[arjun2761]

Wow, that is an interesting opponent (Rebecca Marino) who is making a come back after 5 years and is still only 27! Apparently, she battled depression on the tour which is a reminder that tennis can be quite a lonely sport especially when you are traveling without much support in the earlier stages of your career....

[sameerph]

At $15K ITF Women, Antalya, Turkey

[R1] (Q) Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND,732) l. Aleksandra POSPELOVA (RUS,899) 16(7) 26

[R1] (WC) Riya BHATIA (IND,609) l. Carson BRANSTINE (CAN,993) 75 67(4) 46

Bad losses for both.

[sameerph]

This week too both lost in first round.

At $15K ITF Women, Antalya, Turkey

[R1] Dhruthi TATACHAR VENUGOPAL (IND,721) l. Magdalena PANTUCKOVA (CZE,623) 26 36

[R1] (WC) Riya BHATIA (IND,609) l. (8) Oana Georgeta SIMION (ROU,495) 16 67(4)

So, 3 weeks for these 2 girls in Turkey and only 1 singles win among them. Forgettable trip for both.