Sunish impresses at $ 50000 KPIT- MSLTA ATP Tennis Challenger

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Sunish impresses at  $ 50000 KPIT- MSLTA ATP Tennis Challenger 

 

Pune, October 24: Wildcard and India No 1 Junior Dhruv Sunish justified the organizers faith in him making it to the second round of the $50000 KPIT ATP Challenger organized by MSLTA  and played at the Mhalunge Balewadi tennis Complex in Pune.

 

 The 17 year old Maharashtra boy Dhruv Sunish played out Men's National  Runnersup Siddharth Vishwkarma  6-4, 2-6, 6-3 in a All Indian clash and ensure valuable 7 ATP points for the win.  

 

Among other Indians Siddharth Rawat struggles to get past qualifier Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan  7-5, (3)6-7, 6-2 in a three hour match Another wildcard entrant and national champion Vishnu Vardhan got past  Vinayak Sarma 7-6(2), 6-4 to move to the round of sixteen Eighth seeded  Prajnesh Gunneswaran was made to fight before winning by Haadin Bawa . Prajnesh finally won  7-5, 2-6, 6-4.

 

In the best match of the day seventh seeded Dmitry Popko of Kazakhstan saved four match points in the second set against former Davis Cupper  Sanam Singh , Singh led 6-2 in the second set tiebreak before Popko held his nerves to set up a 3-6, 7-6(6), 7-6(5) win and scrape through into round two 

 

The tournament was inaugurated by Umesh Mane MD Of BVG group , Mr Narendra Sopal Director Sports govt Of Maharashtra, Top Seeded Evgeny Donskoy and Tournament Director Sunder Iyer . organising secretary Kaustubh shah welcomed while Jayant Kadhe proposed the vote of thanks 

 

Following are the results: First round: Singles:

(WC)Dhruv Sunish(Ind) bt Siddharth Vishwkarma(ind) 6-4, 2-6, 6-3;

Prajnesh Gunneswaran(Ind,8) bt Haadin Bawa(Ind)7-5, 2-6, 6-4;

Dmitry Popko(Kaz,7) bt Sanam Singh(ind) 3-6, 7-6(6), 7-6(5);

Sadio Doumbia(Fra) bt Sasi Kumar Mukund(Ind) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4;

Siddharth Rawat(Ind) bt (Q)Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan(Ind) 7-5, (3)6-7, 6-2;

Vishnu Vardhan(ind) bt Vinayak Sharma(Ind)7-6(2), 6-4;

(Q)Luca Maragaroli(SUI) bt Anvit Bendre(Ind) 6-3, 6-3;

 

Doubles: First Round:

Mohit Mayur / Vinayak Sharma(Ind) bt Tejas Chaukulkar / Jayesh Pungaliya(Ind) 6-2, 6-4;

Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan / N. Vijay Sundar Prashant(Ind)(4) bt Abhinav Shanmugam / Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan(Ind) 6-0, 6-4.