N Sriram Balaji thread

[jaydeep]

Bala and Prashanth r playing in the doubles at Bastad and they r playing against local wild-card pair.

At $50K Bastad Challenger 2017, Sweden

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs (WC) Filip Bergevi (SWE)/ Andre Goransson (SWE)

[jaydeep]

Bala-VSP started with a comeback win over local wildcard pair ... Next, they r facing local top-seed pair.

At $50K Bastad Challenger 2017, Sweden

[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) bt (WC) Filip Bergevi (SWE)/ Andre Goransson (SWE) 46 64 10-6

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs (1) Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE)

[S_K_S]

Aaaah Bastad. One of the most beautiful tennis courts in the world. Very fond memories from the Davis Cup trip a long time ago.

[Omkara]

What is these two doing playing only doubles in a challenger in Sweden?

[bujilover]

What is these two doing playing only doubles in a challenger in Sweden?

Playing tennis?

BTW, a great upset win for our boys today over the top seeds(They just qualified for the Wimbledon Main draw and won a round before losing to Venus/Harrison in 4 sets last week).

[bujilover]

Besides, I see Balaji in the ALT entry lists of all the European CHs for next week. He has a chance of getting a direct entry in one of these as he is in top-3 of the ALT list now. Good to see VSP playing some tennis after a while.

Here is the complete result:

At $50K Bastad Challenger 2017, Sweden:

[QF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) 6-2 7-6 (1) Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Andreas Siljestrom (SWE)

[sameerph]

And Balaji and VSP are into the final with a nice comeback win.

At $50K(+H) Bastad Challenger 2017, Sweden

[SF] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) d. (3) Sergio Galdos (PER) / Leonardo Mayer (ARG) 36 64 10-1

Next,

[F] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs. Tuna Altuna (TUR) / Vaclav Safranek (CZE)

[bujilover]

What has gotten into our boys?

[PKBasu]

The Indian strain of the doubles bug, highly contagious.

[bujilover]

Balaji made the main draw at next week's San Benedetto CH in Italy.

[jaydeep]

Bala-VSP lost in straight sets against Altuna and Safranek in the final ... Altuna and Safranek proved too strong for them.

At $50K Bastad Challenger 2017, Sweden

Doubles Final
N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l Tuna Altuna (TUR)/ Vaclav Safranek (CZE) 16 46

[sameerph]

Still a very good week for these guys. Balaji is moving ahead in doubles rankings and needs a few more such efforts at challenger level to get ahead to ATP level in doubles.

Balaji made the main draw at next week's San Benedetto CH in Italy.

He also made the main draw for Poznan, Poland and it seems he is going there instead of Italy. Perhaps, easier to travel from Sweeden where he played today's final.

[jaydeep]

Bala is facing a qualifier in the first round.

At $75K+H Poznan Challenger 2017, Poland

[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,291) vs Qualifier

[jaydeep]

Bala is facing an Argentine qualifier in the first round ... In the doubles, he is facing 2nd seed pair with VSP.

At $75K+H Poznan Challenger 2017, Poland

[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,291) vs (Q) Mariano Kestelboim (ARG,410)

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) vs (2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK)

[sameerph]

Lost in first round of both by identical scorelines.

At $75K+H Poznan Challenger 2017, Poland

[R1] N.Sriram Balaji (IND,291) l. (Q) Mariano Kestelboim (ARG,410) 46 46

Doubles
[R1] N. Sriram Balaji (IND)/ N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) l.(2) Rameez Junaid (AUS)/ Igor Zelenay (SVK) 46 46