Karan Singh lone Indian to Make Semis at MSLTA 25K Mens ITF Tennis Tournaments

 

Mumbai, November 14:   Seventh seeded Karan Singh  was the lone Indian to enter the semfinals at the MSLTA 25K Mens ITF Tennis Tournament   being organised by Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) and played at GA Ranade Tennis court.

 

The 21 year old Karan Singh riding high on confidence quelled the challenge of   Former Olympian and  qualifier Vishnu Vardhan 7-6(6), 6-2 in a 1 hour 34 minute match , the 31 year old Vardhan had a set point in the first set but served a double fault to squander the advantage  and go down tamely in the second set. 

 

Karan who ensured himself a top 500 entry in world rankings will now take on winner of the Bhubaneshwar ITF event and second seeded  Dalibor Svercina of the Czech Republic who registered  and easy 6-4,6-0 win over Russian  Egor Agafonov 

 

Top seeded Khumoyun Sultanov  of Uzbekistan was give a fight by junior player Adhithya Ganesan of USA before winning  3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a match lasting 2 hours and 25 minutes , the Uzbek No 1 and 26 year old Sultanov will take on fifth seeded Russian  Bogdan Bobrov in the semis , Bobrov took just 1 hour 19 minutes to stop the winning run of Wildcard  Nitin Kumar Sinha winning  6-3, 6-1;   

 

In the doubles event the young pair of Aryan Shah and Adhithya Ganesan shocked top seeds  Egor Agafonov and Bogdan Bobrov of Russia  7-6(0),6-1 in the semifinals , in the summit clash Shah- Ganeshan duo will take on second seeds SD Prajwal Dev  and Adil Kalyanpur of  India who scored  7-5,6-3 win over M Rifqi Fitriadi of Indonesia and Korean Jang Yunseok 

 

Singles: Quarterfinal Round:

Khumoyun Sultanov (Uzb) [1] bt Adhithya Ganesan(USA) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; 

 Bogdan Bobrov [5](Rus) bt (WC) Nitin Kumar Sinha (Ind) 6-3, 6-1;   

Karan Singh (Ind) [7] bt Vishnu Vardhan (Ind) 7-6(6), 6-2;

Dalibor Svercina([2](Cze) bt Egor Agafonov [6]  6-4, 6-0;  

 

Doubles: Semifinal Round: 

 Aryan Shah(Ind)/Adhithya Ganesan(USA)   bt Egor Agafonov/Bogdan Bobrov [1]  7-6(0),6-1

 

SD Prajwal Dev/Adil Kalyanpur(Ind)[2] btM Rifqi Fitriadi(INA)/Jang Yunseok(Kor)  7-5, 6-3.