ATP/WTA Tour
Yuki Bhambri continued to play along with Dutch partner Robin Hasse but lost in the first round of Doha ATP.
At Doha ATP 250, Qatar
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Robin Haase (NED) l. Andreas Mies (GER) / John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 46 36
After starting their stint together well making SF in their first tournament at Brisbane ATP 250, this paring of Yuki with Haase had 4 first round losses. So, they will need to do better soon, else we may see Yuki pairing up with someone else.
On WTA tour, Ankita Raina got a wild card in singles qualifying and Ankita Raina/Prarthana Thombre got a doubles wild card at Dubai WTA.
However, Ankita lost in first round of qualifying while Ankita/Prarthana lost in first round against a tough pair after a good fight 15-17 in super tie break.
ATP Challenger Tour
Indian Challenger series continued this week in Pune.
In singles, Indian players made a great start with all 4 participants winning their first round matches with 3 wild cards- Ramkumar Ramnathan, Sasikumar Mukund and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha all beating higher ranked players.
In the second round, Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha got a big upset against top seed Sumit Nagal in an all Indian clash while Mukund also had a very good win against a higher ranked player. However, Ramkumar lost against a qualifier.
In the quarter final, unfortunately Sasikumar Mukund had to give a walkover due to a bout of food poisoning and Niki Poonacha had 2 match points with 7th seed Australian Sweeny at 5-2, 40-15 in third set but could not covert it and lost in third set tie break.
In doubles, our pairs of top seeds Jeevan Neduncheziyan/ Arjun Kadhe and Saketh Myneni/Ramkumar Ramanathan ( who have won the challenger titles in last 2 weeks) both lost in the semi finals.
These are results of our players at Pune Challenger-
Singles-
[R1] (1) Sumit Nagal (IND,101) d. Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE,227) 76(6) 64
[R1] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,420) d. Stefano Napolitano (ITA,160) 76(5) 76(5)
[R1] (WC) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,457) d. (8) Federico Gaio (ITA,202) 63 62
[R1] (WC) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,791) d. Goncalo Oliveira (POR,213) 63 67(2) 76(3)
[R2] (WC) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,791) d. (1) Sumit Nagal (IND,101) 64 63
[R2] (WC) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,420) l. (Q) Alexey Zakharov (RUS,610)
[R2] (WC) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,457) d. (Q) Felix Gill (GBR,344) 61 60
[QF] (WC) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,457) l. (3) Adam Walton (AUS,154) walkove
[QF] (WC) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND,791) l. (7) Dane Sweeny (AUS,218) 64 26 67(3)
Doubles-
[R1] (WC) Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta (IND) / Karan Singh (IND) l. Tristan Schoolkate (AUS) / Adam Walton (AUS) 63 36 4-10
[R1] (WC) Siddhant Banthia (IND) / Parikshit Somani (IND) d. Luca Margaroli (SUI) / Goncalo Oliveira (POR) 57 76(5) 10-5
[R1] (4) N.Sriram Balaji (IND) / Andre Begemann (GER) l. Toshihide Matsui (JPN) / Kaito Uesugi (JPN) 64 67(5) 5-10
[R1] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) / Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) 36 36
[R1] Saketh Myneni (IND) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) d. (2) Piotr Matuszewski (POL) / Matthew Christopher Romios (AUS)
[QF] WC) Siddhant Banthia (IND) / Parikshit Somani (IND) l. (3) Dan Added (FRA) / Yun Seong Chung (KOR) 63 57 7-10
[QF] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) d. Jakob Schnaitter (GER) / Mark Wallner (GER) 64 76(6)
[QF] Saketh Myneni (IND) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) d. Duje Ajdukovic (CRO) / Enrico Dalla Valle (ITA) 62 67(4) 10-2
[SF] (1) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND) l. (3) Dan Added (FRA) / Yun Seong Chung (KOR) 36 36
[SF] Saketh Myneni (IND) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) l. Tristan Schoolkate (AUS) / Adam Walton (AUS) 67(6) 26