Vishnu leads four upsets at the MT ITF S400 Seniors tennis championships.

Pune , October 7, 2023:  Unseeded  Vishal Vishnu toppled top seeded Ajay Patil 6-2,6-3  and led three other upsets to enter tell the quarterfinal of the 30 plus event  at the ITF S400 Seniors championships-co sponsored by Aryan Pumps  and conducted under the Auspices of ITF, MSLTA and PMDTA  at the Deccan Gymkhana Tennis courts 

In other upsets Pune players Prosonjit Paul upset third seeded Kiran Kotti  6-4, 6-2; while  Partha Chivate upset fourth seeded Gourabdip Ghosh 6-3, 6-0 while  Ajinky Patankar toppled sixth seeded Gaurav Patel6-4, 6-2.

Following are the results: 

Mens 30 Plus: Pre-quarterfinal Round: 

Vishal Vishnu(Ind) bt Anay Pati(Ind)(1) 6-2, 6-3;

Amruth Sundarkumar(Ind) bt Smeer Sonawane(Ind) 6-3, 6-0;

Partha Chivate(Ind) bt Gourabdip Ghosh(Ind)(4) 6-3, 6-0;

Ajinky Patankar(Ind) bt Gaurav Patel(Ind)(6) 6-4, 6-2;

Prosonjit Paul(Ind) bt Kiran Kotti(Ind)(3) 6-4, 6-2;

Raghavendra Subramanya(Ind)(8) bt Saurav Prasad(Ind) 6-1, 6-3;

Arun Bhosale(Ind)(2) bt Shiladitya Banerjee(Ind) 6-0, 7-6(7);

Mens 35 Plus:  Second Round: 

Ravindranath Pandey(Ind) bt Bhushan Joshi(Ind) 6-0, 6-1;

Milind Marne(Ind)(6) bt Yashraj Ubhe(Ind) 6-1, 6-2;

Nitin Sawant(Ind)(4) bt Harshal Sopariwala(Ind) 6-4. 6-4;

Nitin Rajpure(Ind) bt Akshay Navaladi(Ind)(7) 6-1, 6-0;

Ganesh Devkhile(Ind)(5) bt Sarang Patki(Ind) 6-0, 6-0;

Narhar Garge(Ind)(8) bt Amit Mete(Ind) 6-0, 6-0;

Ketan Dhumal(Ind)(2) bt Amit Dixit(Ind) 6-2, 6-1;

Mens 40 Plus: Second Round: 

Haresh Ramchandani(Ind) bt Kaustubh Deshmukh(Ind) 6-3, 1-6, 10-5;

Amit Tilak(Ind)(6) bt Ashwin Kamath(Ind) 6-0, 6-0;

Girish Mishra(Ind)(5) bt Darshan Gupta(Ind) 6-1, 6-0;

Shriram Oka(Ind)(13) bt Ratish Ratusaria(Ind) 6-1, 1-6, 10-6;

Abhijeet Muzumdar(Ind)(9) bt Samir Mansuri(Ind) 6-0, 6-0;

Amit Kindo(Ind)(5) bt Jitendra Sawant(Ind) 6-3, 6-0;

Mens 50 Plus: Pre-quarterfinals round

Sunil Lulla(Ind)(1) bt Ricky Mehra(Ind) 6-1, 6-2;

Navin Agarwal(Ind)(6) bt Sahdeep Nulkar(Ind) 6-2, 6-1;

Balan Ramadass(Ind)(3) bt Kiran Bemarkar(Ind) 6-1, 1-6, 12-10;

Asheesh Malpani(Ind)(8) bt A Nair(Ind) 4-6, 6-3, 10-6;

Rajesh Ganapathy(Ind)(5) bt Pankaj Yadav(Ind) 6-1, 6-1;

Ashish Pant(Ind)(4) bt Maktumsaheb Kazi(Ind) 6-1, 6-1;

Rvrk Ranga Rao(Ind)(2) bt Shivaji Yadav(Ind) 6-1, 6-4;