Indian tennis gamers Mukund Sasikumar and Prajnesh Gunneswaran made their manner into the ultimate qualifying spherical on the Bengaluru Open after registering contrasting victories on Sunday. The celebrated ATP Challenger occasion is being organised by the Karnataka State Garden Tennis Affiliation (KSLTA) on the KSLTA Stadium in Bengaluru.
The 26-year-old Sasikumar, who’s ranked 402 on the planet, dominated World No. 170 Andrew Paulson throughout his assured 6-1, 6-4 win. India No. 1 Gunneswaran, then again, confronted some powerful problem from Zimbabwean Benjamin Lock within the first set, which went right into a tie-breaker, however managed to maintain issues below management to safe a 7-5, 6-4 victory finally.
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In the meantime, it was heartbreak for Ramkumar Ramanathan, who put up a stable present towards the previous World No. 78 Yasutaka Uchiyama of Japan earlier than happening combating 6-3, 5-7, 3-6 in an exhilarating three-setter that lasted for greater than two hours.
4 different Indians, Sidharth Rawat, Kriish Tyagi, Digvijaypratap Singh and Manish Ganesh, who got here as wild playing cards, additionally gave it their all however suffered defeats of their respective matches. Prime-seed Tseng Chun-Hsin, Australian Marc Polmans and No. 5 seed Luca Nardi amongst others will start their problem within the singles most important draw whereas Sasikumar and Gunneswaran will combat within the ultimate qualifying spherical earlier within the day.