KARMAN KAUR IN SECOND ROUND OF $60K EVENT IN CHINA
Fifth seed Karman Kaur Thandi powered her way past Sun Xu Liu of China 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the $60,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Luan, China, on Tuesday.
There was more cheer for the Indian camp as the country’s No.1 player Ankita Raina combined with Harriet Dart of Britain to make the doubles quarterfinals.
In the men’s Challenger in Portugal, Davis Cupper Sumit Nagal was beaten 6-4, 6-0 by Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol of Spain.
The results:
€ 43,000 Challenger men, Braga, Portugal
Singles (first round): Sergio Gutierrez-Ferrol (Esp) bt Sumit Nagal 6-4, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (first round): Alex Marti Pujolras (Esp) bt Manish Sureshkumar 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Marco Bortolotti & Nicolo Turchetti (Ita) bt Prithvi Sekhar & Manish Sureshkumar 6-4, 6-3; Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi & PC Vignesh bt Alan Bzarov (Rus) & Pratheek Mandalapu (US) 6-1, 6-1; Jeff Guerrero (Mex) & Nicolas Xiviller (Uru) bt Anton Magnussonn (Isl) & Gokul Suresh 6-3, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Kampala, Uganda
Singles (first round): Kunal Anand bt Arturs Lazdins (Lat) 6-1, 6-2; SD Prajwal Dev bt Goran Markovic (Srb) 2-6, 6-0, 6-4; Jayesh Pungliya bt Shalva Dzhanashiya (Rus) 7-5, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF men, Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Kelsey Stevenson (Can) & Karunuday Singh bt Ku Keon Kang & Jae-Min Seol (Kor) 6-1, 6-1; Issei Okamura & Ryota Tanuma (Jpn) bt Matthew Romios (Aus) & Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-7(4), 7-5, [10-6].
$60,000 ITF women, Luan, China
Singles (first round): Karman Kaur Thandi bt Xu Liu Sun (Chn) 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Harriet Dart (GBR) & Ankita Raina bt Nika Kukharchuk (Rus) & Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) 6-4, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (first round): Muskan Gupta bt Saumya Vig 6-0, 6-0; Petia Arshinkova (Bul) bt Sabhyata NIhalani 6-0, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Minami Akiyama & Haine Ogata (Jpn) bt Snehal Mane & Sabhyata NIhalani 6-3, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF women, Hua Hin, Thailand
Singles (first round): Nudnida Luangnam (Tha) bt Natasha Palha 6-2, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Kwan Yau Ng (Hkg) & Natasha Palha bt Maree Casey (Aus) & Avika Sagwal 6-4, 6-3.
