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Brian Swartz · 12-15-2017, 08:02 AM

Indian Wells

Anil Mehul was part of a pairing that won a whole two games against the Rhodes brothers in a first-round doubles match; he's just playing out the string waiting for his ranking to drop further in doubles. Meanwhile former singles standout Johnny Browne was part of the unseeded champions. He's making a breakthrough in his second career. Shyam Senepathy lost his first-round match to an American ranked outside the Top 100, Steven Whitney. Not the best look for him either.

(25) Luc Janin was the first seed to fall, to qualifying doubles star Radule Cordasic. (11)Milos Schmucker stumbled at the first hurdle as well; he's been criminally running himself into the ground, and it's showing. Cordasic went on to knock off (12)Benno Duhr in the third round also. No real surprises elsewhere but there were some close ones. Jolland pushed Martin Zarco to third set, Kronecker was close to leaving early, and in another one of those early-round tussles between US hopefuls , Stuart Pargeter was beaten by Blake, 6-7(11), 6-4, 6-2. In the fourth round, there were three matches in a row that were all close; but no upsets. Piazzola escaped Hugo Cordova, Dircx another American in Mackenzie, and Mooljee outlasted [b]Sigmund Kronecker[b], 7-5 in the 5th.

Once again it's the Top 8 all making the quarterfinals. That group is really stable right now. Kaspar thumped Ruben Piazzola to start things off, while Dircx easily eliminated Prakash Mooljee, 6-2, 6-4. Zarco got through a testy match with Gillo Fangio, and the match of the day was Dudwadkar over Hsuang-tsung Teng, 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-4. He deserved to win it, but barely. Teng is really playing well this year.

Top four all move on, and Guus Dircx made it tough on the #1, 7-6(9), 6-4 in his first real test of the week. In an absolutely crucial matchup, Martin Zarco took the early lead but couldn't hold it against Dudwadkar, who moves on 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. That's two in a row now, with both players improving on how they performed last year. Another competitive showing in the final, but Ritwik Dudwadkar can't end the run of Mateo Kaspar, 6-3, 7-6(2). Really wasn't quite as close as that indicates. Can't ask any more than what he did here though.

12-15-2017, 08:02 AM	#728
Brian Swartz Grizzled Veteran Join Date: May 2006	Indian Wells Anil Mehul was part of a pairing that won a whole two games against the Rhodes brothers in a first-round doubles match; he's just playing out the string waiting for his ranking to drop further in doubles. Meanwhile former singles standout Johnny Browne was part of the unseeded champions. He's making a breakthrough in his second career. Shyam Senepathy lost his first-round match to an American ranked outside the Top 100, Steven Whitney. Not the best look for him either. (25) Luc Janin was the first seed to fall, to qualifying doubles star Radule Cordasic. (11)Milos Schmucker stumbled at the first hurdle as well; he's been criminally running himself into the ground, and it's showing. Cordasic went on to knock off (12)Benno Duhr in the third round also. No real surprises elsewhere but there were some close ones. Jolland pushed Martin Zarco to third set, Kronecker was close to leaving early, and in another one of those early-round tussles between US hopefuls , Stuart Pargeter was beaten by Blake, 6-7(11), 6-4, 6-2. In the fourth round, there were three matches in a row that were all close; but no upsets. Piazzola escaped Hugo Cordova, Dircx another American in Mackenzie, and Mooljee outlasted [b]Sigmund Kronecker[b], 7-5 in the 5th. Once again it's the Top 8 all making the quarterfinals. That group is really stable right now. Kaspar thumped Ruben Piazzola to start things off, while Dircx easily eliminated Prakash Mooljee, 6-2, 6-4. Zarco got through a testy match with Gillo Fangio, and the match of the day was Dudwadkar over Hsuang-tsung Teng, 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-4. He deserved to win it, but barely. Teng is really playing well this year. Top four all move on, and Guus Dircx made it tough on the #1, 7-6(9), 6-4 in his first real test of the week. In an absolutely crucial matchup, Martin Zarco took the early lead but couldn't hold it against Dudwadkar, who moves on 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. That's two in a row now, with both players improving on how they performed last year. Another competitive showing in the final, but Ritwik Dudwadkar can't end the run of Mateo Kaspar, 6-3, 7-6(2). Really wasn't quite as close as that indicates. Can't ask any more than what he did here though.