Prajnesh Gunneswaran thread

[sameerph]

Head to head Prajnesh and Hugo are 1-1 but those matches were in 2015 and 2018. On current form, in fact I would put Hugo as slight favorite, something like 55-45 at least.

[sameerph]

Head to head Prajnesh and Hugo are 1-1 but those matches were in 2015 and 2018. On current form, in fact I would put Hugo as slight favorite, something like 55-45 at least.

[Sanjay]

Meek defeat to a much lower ranked player

Very disappointing.

[sameerph]

Rankings are somewhat misleading right now for many players. Current form of Prajnesh and Sumit in particular is much worse then warrented by their rankings.

Prajnesh reached 2 challenger semi finals in March but after that has only 1 QF. While since June, Hugo has reached 2 challenger SF and won a 25K futures title. So, on current form Hugo was the favourite and the results turned out to be as per my expectations.

At St. Tropez Challenger, France ( Hard)

[R1] (4) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,156) l. Hugo Grenier (FRA,241) 57 36

[vparam]

Prajnesh has pulled out of the Cassis challenger which was supposed to start next week.

[Rajiv]

DC also looks doubtfull, and we are left with Saki who hasn't touched his raquet for 6 months, considering the options left infact Rohan would be a better choice
Hope can convince Mukund and in hindsight, Sid would have been better atleast more match fit than Saki.

[Sanjay]

Bring back Vijay Amritraj and Ramesh Krishnan!

[prasen9]

Nah, Ramanathan Krishnan would be better.

[Dinesh]

Prajnesh is playing in the Columbus challenger and is seeded 4th but starts with a tough R1 match against 23yo qualifier Aleksandar Kovacevic (who beat this year’s 6-times Challenger title winner Benjamin Bonzi at the USO QR2).

[Dinesh]

PG won Saved a match point while serving 4-5 in the third set and played a brilliant couple of games to seal the match. Score 3-6 6-3 7-5.

[jayakris]

Good job, PG. Hey, his career took off after that tremendous DC win against China to save us, so maybe this Davis Cup is what restarts things for him? I hope so!

[jaydeep]

Good hard fought with for Prajnesh.

[sameerph]

Yes, really good win for Prajnesh. Kovacevic made the final qualfiying round of US open and is in good form.

At Tennis Ohio Championships, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Hard)

[R1] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,167) d. (Q) Alekander Kovacevic (USA,364) 36 63 75

Next,

[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,167) vs. Mikael Torpegaard (DEN,226)

Torpegaard made the main draw of Australian open early this year but since then his form has fallen away. Hope Prajnesh prevails here.

[sameerph]

No Chance for Prajnesh as the Dane proved too good for him.

At Tennis Ohio Championships, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Hard)

[R2] Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,167) l. Mikael Torpegaard (DEN,226) 16 46

[Sanjay]

Quite a devastating defeat.