TENNIS
Dubai Tennis Championship: Yuki-Saketh pair reaches quarterfinals
Lucky losers Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni beat Marcelo Melo and Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-5 within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the ATP500 match in Dubai on Tuesday.
The Indian pair had misplaced within the second and closing qualifying spherical of the doubles earlier, however obtained fortunate to make the principle occasion.
Last week’s champion in Doha – Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden – have been overwhelmed by prime seeds Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic 7-5, 4-6, 10-7 within the first spherical.
RESULTS
ATP500, Dubai, UAE
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Nikola Mektic & Mate Pavic (Cro) bt Rohan Bopanna & Matthew Ebden (Aus) 7-5, 4-6, [10-7]; Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni bt Marcelo Melo (Bra) & Alexander Zverev (Ger) 6-3, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Wang Jiaqi (Chn) bt Sravya Shivani 6-1, 6-2; Paris Corley (USA) bt Jennifer Luikham 6-1, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF girls, Kuching, Malaysia
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Feng Shuo & Guo Meiqi (Chn) bt Natalia Fehr (Sui) & Snehal Mane 6-0, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Antalya, Turkey
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rikke De Koning (Ned) & DAria Lodikova bt Alexandra Diana Braga (Rou) & Annika Kannan 6-1, 6-2.
– Team Sportstar
Squads introduced for wheelchair tennis Asia-Oceania qualifying occasion
Indian males’s workforce has been clubbed with prime seed Korea and Thailand in group-A for the Asia-Oceania qualifying occasion of the World Team Cup wheelchair tennis match being staged in Chonburi, Thailand.
The different group has second seed Australia, Sri Lanka, China and Pakistan. The toppers from the 2 teams will compete within the closing, whereas the remaining will play for place.
In the ladies’s part, Thailand, Korea, China and India are the 4 groups. The winner of the league will qualify for the World Group to be held in Portugal in May.
TEAMS
Men: Sathasivam Kannupayan, Mariappan Durai, Karthik Karunakaran.
Women: Shilpa KP, Prathima Rao, Sheranthi Thomas.
Coach: Hiten Joshi.
– Team Sportstar
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com