TENNIS
$30,000 ITF males’s event: Ramkumar Ramanathan loses in first spherical
Maxim Zhukov beat second seed Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-2 within the first spherical of the $30,000 ITF males’s tennis event on the Indore Tennis Membership on Wednesday.
Within the pre-quarterfinals, Maxim will play Dhakshineswar Suresh who eased previous Grigoriy Lomakin of Kazakhstan for the lack of seven video games.
Qualifier Vishnu Vardhan beat seventh seed Dominik Palan of Czech Republic in two tie-break units.
Yuvan Nandal, Chirag Duhan, Sidharth Rawat, Aryan Shah and Dev Javia have been the opposite Indian gamers to progress into the second spherical.
The outcomes:
Singles (first spherical): Mathys Erhard (Fra) bt Manish Sureshkumar 7-5, 6-1; Yuvan Nandal bt Yuichiro Inui (Jpn) 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(7); Alastair Grey (GBR) bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-3, 6-4; Vishnu Vardhan bt Dominik Palan (Cze) 7-6(2), 7-6(4); Florent Bax (Fra) bt Madhwin Kamath 6-3,1-6, 6-3; Chirag Duhan bt S.D. Prajwal Dev 7-5, 6-3; Sidharth Rawat bt Deep Munim 6-1, 6-1; Egor Agafonov bt Raghav Jaisinghani 7-5, 7-6(3); Yurii Dzhavakian (Ukr) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-2, 6-2; Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Ishaque Eqbal 6-4, 6-4; Aryan Shah bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-4, 6-2; Oliver Crawford (GBR) bt Sergey Fomin (Uzb) 1-6, 6-2, 6-3; Samir Banerjee (USA) bt Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) 6-2, 6-4; Dev Javia bt Keerthivassan Suresh 6-4, 6-4; Dhakshineswar Suresh bt Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) 6-3, 6-4; Maxim Zhukov bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
$60,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event: Sahaja strikes into Spherical of 16 after beating Yodpetch
Sahaja Yamalapalli beat Kamonwan Yodpetch of Thailand 6-3, 6-4 to maneuver into the pre-quarterfinals of the $60,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event in Nonthaburi, Thailand, on Wednesday.
The outcomes:
$60,000 ITF ladies, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Jia-Jing Lu (Chn) bt Vaidehi Chaudhari 3-6, 6-4, 6-2; Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Kamonwan Yodpetch (Tha) 6-3, 6-4.
$30,000 ITF ladies, Nairobi, Kenya
Singles (first spherical): Yashaswini Panwar bt Sonia Tuyishime (Rwa) 6-0, 6-0; Angella Okutoyi (Ken) bt Priyanshi Bhandari 6-1, 6-0; Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Cynthia Wanjala (Ken) 6-3, 6-3; Gabriella Mikaul (USA) bt Laalitya Kalluri 6-2, 6-2; Lexue Xiao (Chn) bt Vanshita Pathania 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(8).
-Kamesh Srinivasan