Purav Raja thread...

[sameerph]

At Newport ATP 250 (Hall of Fame Ch), RI, USA - 2015

[SF] Purav Raja (IND,108) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,106) vs. Nicolas Monroe (USA,64) / Mate Pavic (CRO,69)

Rajeev Ram is in singles SF beating another top 40 player Mannarino in QF. He will meet another surprise semi finalist 156th ranked Australian John-Patric Smith in the SF.

[IndianTennisFan]

Tough loss for Purav & Fabrice They saved 6 set points to force a tie break in the 2nd set and eventually got to a match point at 6-5 in the tie breaker, but it wasn't meant to be

[SF] Purav Raja (IND,108) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,106) l. Nicolas Monroe (USA,64) / Mate Pavic (CRO,69) 6-4 6-7(6) 6-10

[Rahb]

CLARO OPEN COLOMBIA, BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, ATP 250

[R1] Purav Raja (IND,108) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,106) vs. [1] Rajeev Ram (USA,34) / Treat Huey (CRO,58)

So a tough match to begin with for our pair

[Omkara]

Rahb its not the SF I am guessing. Welcome to the world of errors while posting results

[Rahb]

Rahb its not the SF I am guessing. Welcome to the world of errors while posting results

Sorry for the error. I just corrected it. Thanks

[jaydeep]

Rahb its not the SF I am guessing. Welcome to the world of errors while posting results

Sorry for the error. I just corrected it. Thanks

No need to be sorry, these thing happens.
Now another minor mistake. Treat Huey is Filipino so need to change country to (PHI) from (CRO).

[IndianTennisFan]

Purav & Fabrice finally kicked off their campaign on Thursday with a fine comeback victory over the top seeds. They looked down and out after losing the opening set 1-6 in just 18 mins

[R1] Purav Raja (IND,108) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,106) d. [1] Rajeev Ram (USA,34) / Treat Huey (PHI,58) 1-6 6-3 10-5

[prashanthm]

That's a fantastic win!!!

[sameerph]

Yes, excellent win by Purav and Fabrice.

Purav & Fabrice finally kicked off their campaign on Thursday with a fine comeback victory over the top seeds. They looked down and out after losing the opening set 1-6 in just 18 mins

[R1] Purav Raja (IND,108) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,106) d. [1] Rajeev Ram (USA,34) / Treat Huey (PHI,58) 1-6 6-3 10-5

IndianTennisFan, thanks a lot for your updates. Please color code only our pair like this as the intention is for the reader to quickly figure out if our players have won or lost a match.

[R1] Purav Raja (IND,108) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,106) d. [1] Rajeev Ram (USA,34) / Treat Huey (PHI,58) 1-6 6-3 10-5

Next,

[QF] Purav Raja (IND,102) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,97) vs. Matthew Ebden (AUS,271) vs. Adrian Mannarino (FRA,357)

Ebden and Mannarino are of course much better players than ranking suggests as they do to play doubles enough.

[bujilover]

Wonderful to watch Purav getting those close upset wins. Please keep it going!

How I wish Divij gets a regular partner to play

[IndianTennisFan]

Comfortable win for Purav & Fabrice in under an hour!

[QF] Purav Raja (IND,102) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,97) d. Matthew Ebden (AUS,271) / Adrian Mannarino (FRA,357) 6-4 6-4

Into the semis now where they'll clash with the 3rd seeds

[SF] Purav Raja (IND,102) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,97) vs. (3) Mate Pavic (CRO,59) / Michael Venus (NZ,43)

Purav & Fabrice lost a close semi final to Pavic & Nicholas Monroe last week at Newport, while Venus was battling Somdev & Yuki in the Davis Cup, a few thousand miles away

[sameerph]

Great. 90 more points which will take Purav back to top 100 ( mostly inside 90). He is getting very close to getting a ranking which will get him into more ATP main draws. Next match will be tough against a good pair of doubles specialists.

[prashanthm]

[SF] Purav Raja (IND,102) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,97) l. (3) Mate Pavic (CRO,59) / Michael Venus (NZ,43) 64 36 01(9)

Purav/Fabrice won the first set, but lost the 2nd owing to an early break...
In the match tie-break, at 7-7 they went up a mini-break to 8-7 and Purav had a chance finish off the match...
He got his team two match points with a service winner for 9-7, but the next point went to the opponents after a Purav 2nd serve.. 9-8
Opponents held their serve on both the points to get a match point... 9-10... and they lost it 9-11, losing 4 points from 9-7...

[IndianTennisFan]

2nd week in a row that they had match points to reach an ATP final

Anyway, It's a good sign that they're regularly playing and winning matches at ATP 250 level. Next up, they're in the main draw at Atlanta

[Rahb]

At ATP 250 in Atlanta

Treat Huey(PHI) / Steve Johnson (USA) v Purav Raja (IND,102) / Fabrice Martin (FRA,97)