Arjun Kadhe beats Ramkumar Ramanathan in first round of Pune Challenger
Wild card Arjun Kadhe knocked out second seed Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the KPIT $50,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Pune on Tuesday.
Arjun will play Brayden Schnur of Canada in the pre-quarterfinals.
Another wild card Sasi Kumar Mukund beat Saketh Myneni, the finalist of the last event in Bengaluru 6-4, 7-6(1) to set up a second round against sixth seed Jay Clarke of Britain.
Champion last week, and the best ranked Indian at the moment on the ATP computer, Prajnesh Gunneswaran progressed with a 6-4, 6-4 win over the former Asian junor champion Tsung-Hua Yang of Chinese Taipei.
The results:
Singles (first round): Radu Albot (Mda) bt Sumit Nagal 7-5, 6-2; Maverick Banes (Aus) bt Francesco Vilardo (Ita) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Sasi Kumar Mukund bt Saketh Myneni 6-4, 7-6(1); Lucas Gerch (Ger) bt Collin Al Tamirano (US) 6-3, 6-1; Ben Patael (Isr) bt Danilo Petrovic (Srb) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Kaz) bt Marc Polmans (Aus) 6-2, 6-4; Sebastian Fanselow (Ger) bt Scott Griekspoor (Ned) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Frederico Ferreira Silva (Por) bt Benjamin Hassan (Ger) 6-1, 6-2; Arjun Kadhe bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Antonio Sancic (Cro) & Purav Raja bt Daniel Masur (Ger) & Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (Aut) 4-6, 7-6(6), 10-8; Max Purcell & Luke Saville (Aus) bt Cem Ilkel (Tur) & Danilo Petrovic (Srb) 6-4, 1-6, 16-14; Andrej Martin (Svk) & Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (Chi) bt Collin al Tamirano (US) & Maverick Banes (Aus) 6-4, 7-5.
