India’s Ramkumar Ramanathan alongside together with his Italian companion Francesco Maestrelli stormed into the doubles quarter-finals of the DafaNews Bengaluru Open 2023 on Wednesday.
Ramkumar and Maestrelli etched a 6-2, 7-6 (4) win over Colin Sinclair of North Mariana Islands and Miljan Zekic of Serbia on the KSLTA courts. Sinclair and Zekic had changed Sumit Nagal and Mukund Sasikumar after the Indians withdrew from the occasion.
The India duo of Anirudh Chandrasekhar and N Prashanth additionally booked their berth within the quarter-finals with a 7-5, 6-2 win over compatriots SD Prajwal Dev and Parikshit Somani.
One other India participant Arjun Kadhe within the firm of Max Neuchrist of Austria additionally reached the final eight, because the No 4 seeded pair defeated Petr Nouza and Andrew Paulson of Czech Republic 7-6 (5), 6-4.
In the meantime within the singles, high seeded Chun-Hsin Tseng of Taipei moved into the quarter-finals with a hard-fought win over fellow countryman Yu Hsiou Hsu. Tseng gained 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (4) to guarantee himself a quarterfinals place.
There was an upset on the day as France’s Harold Mayot defeated third seeded Ryan Peniston, a world quantity 145, of Britain in straight units, 7-6 (5), 6-0.