Loss for Venus, wins for Sun, Reynolds, Watt
- Dave Worsley
- 7 hours ago
- 2 min read
The ups and downs of New Zealand tennis players continue arond the world on the ATP and WTA Tour's.
At the Madrid Masters Michael Venus and Nikola Mektic were beaten in the quarterfinals by top seeds Marcelo Arevalo (El Salvador) and Mate Pavic (Croatia) 7-6(5) 4-6, 5-10 in one hour 42 minutes..
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Venus and Mektic had oportunites but were unable to take advantage on their break points converting just one of six chances while their opponents won two from four break points.
Venus has a current ATP doubles ranking of 16 reached the semis of Madrid last year with Jamie Murray but is likely to remain arond that mark when the new rankings come out on Monday.
Also in Spain is Lulu Sun who is in the WTA US$125,000 in Catalonia.
Sun lost in the second round of singles but it through to the doubles final with another lef-hander, Leylah Fernandez.
The face the team of Bianca Andreescu and Indonesian Aldila Sutjiada in the final.
At the Ostrava Challenger in Czechia Finn Reynold and James Watt are continuing their run of form.
In their past three tournament they have feach the final at Morelos, Mexico, the semifinals at San Luis Potosi and now semifinals at leat at Ostrava.
Reynold, 25 is ranked 165 in the world and combined with the 206cm James Watt age 24 and 242 the pair had worked well together.
In their quarterfinal they defeated Edas Butvilas from Lithuania and Coleman Wong (Hong Kong) 6-4, 6-1 and will now play top seeds Patrik Niklas Salmine (Finland and Szymon Walkow (Poland) for a place in the final.
