TENNIS
$30,000 ITF men’s tournament: Ramkumar Ramanathan loses in first round
Maxim Zhukov beat second seed Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the $30,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament at the Indore Tennis Club on Wednesday.
In the pre-quarterfinals, Maxim will play Dhakshineswar Suresh who eased past Grigoriy Lomakin of Kazakhstan for the loss of seven games.
Qualifier Vishnu Vardhan beat seventh seed Dominik Palan of Czech Republic in two tie-break sets.
Yuvan Nandal, Chirag Duhan, Sidharth Rawat, Aryan Shah and Dev Javia were the other Indian players to progress into the second round.
The results:
Singles (first round): Mathys Erhard (Fra) bt Manish Sureshkumar 7-5, 6-1; Yuvan Nandal bt Yuichiro Inui (Jpn) 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(7); Alastair Gray (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 women’s tennis tournament: Sahaja moves into Round of 16 after beating Yodpetch
Sahaja Yamalapalli beat Kamonwan Yodpetch of Thailand 6-3, 6-4 to move into the pre-quarterfinals of the $60,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Nonthaburi, Thailand, on Wednesday.
The results:
$60,000 ITF women, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Singles (first round): 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 women, Nairobi, Kenya
Singles (first round): 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
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