Amit Beniwal beats top seed Chandril Sood in ATT Tennis

Amit Beniwal knocked out top seed Chandril Sood 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the Col. KK Uppal memorial $3,000 Asian men’s tennis tournament at the VAN Sports Club, Baliawas, on Wednesday.

On a day when there were as many as six players who did not finish their match and conceded after playing one set or a little more, second seed Vijayant Malik retired when he was handshaking distance away from defeat.

Vimalraj Jayachandran led 7-5, 5-3 when Vijayant conceded. Vimalraj will play Vilasier Khate in the pre-quarterfinals.

Amit Beniwal will face Lakshya Gupta, who endured a long-drawn battle against Shubham Malhotra and won 6-1, 6-7(8), 7-5.

Shashank Theertha overcame the loss of the first set in the tie-break to beat eighth seed Yugal Bansal as the latter retired early in the third set.

Twin brother of Chandril Sood, Lakshit Sood cruised into the second round with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Aakash Ahlawat.

The results (first round): Amit Beniwal bt Chandril Sood 6-3, 6-1; Lakshya Gupta bt Shubham Malhotra 6-1, 6-7(8), 7-5; Parth Aggarwal bt Ashutosh Tiwary 6-3 6-2; Shashank Theertha bt Yugal Bansal 6-7(2), 6-3, 2-1 (conceded); Neeraj Yashpaul bt Deepak Senthilkumar 6-3, 6-3; Kunj Kotak bt Fardeen Qamar 7-5, 6-4; Rudraksh Mitra bt Vashu Gupta 6-3, 7-5; Garry Tokas bt Tanik Gupta 7-6(5), 6-4; Pranjal Tiwary bt Parshwa Bhavishi 6-1, 3-0 (conceded); Aditya Tiwari bt Medhir Goyal 6-1, 6-0; Aditya Vishal Balsekar bt Apuroop Reddy 6-1, 4-0 (conceded); Lakshit Sood bt Aakash Ahlawat 6-1, 6-2; Raghav Jaisinghani bt NIshant Dabas 7-5 (conceded); Vilasier Khate bt Akash Nandwal 7-6(2), 6-2; Vimalraj Jayachandran bt Vijayant Malik 7-5, 5-3 (conceded).

(Courtesy: The Hindu)