KARUNUDAY SINGH BEATS TOP SEED IN HONG KONG

Karunuday Singh beat top seed Li Zhe of China in the first round of the $25,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament in Hong Kong on Tuesday.

Karunuday led 7-6(1) when the Chinese retired before the start of the second set.

In the ITF women’s event in Portugal, qualifier Mihika Yadav battled past Lauren Proctor of the US 6-4, 5-7, 7-5 in the first round.

The results:

$25,000 ITF men, Hong Kong
Singles (first round): Karunuday Singh bt Li Zhe (Chn) 7-6(1) retired; Sidharth Rawat bt Kaito Uessugi (Jpn) 6-4, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Singles (first round): Tyler Mercier (US) bt Mohit Mayur 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (retired); Vasisht Cheruku bt SD Prajwal Dev 2-6, 7-5 6-4; Pruchya Isaro (Tha) bt Gokul Suresh 6-2, 6-2; Vijayant Malik bt Anirudh Chandrasekar 6-4, 6-4; Manish Sureshkumar bt Sharmal Dissanayake (Sri) 6-0 (retired); Anvit Bendre bt Phongsapak Kerdlaphee (Tha) 6-1, 6-4; Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa 6-3, 6-1; Muzammil Murtaza (Pak) bt VM SSandeep 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Thomas Brechemier (Fra) 6-3, 6-1.

Doubles (pre-quarterfiinals): Mohit Mayur & Manish Sureshkumar bt Darko Jandric (Srb) & Diego Matos (Bra) 6-3, 6-3; Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi & Niki Poonacha bt Muzammil Murtaza (Pak) & Stefan Vujic (Auss) 7-6(7), 7-6(4); Naoki Takeda & Shunsuke Wakita (Jpn) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & PC Vignesh 3-6, 6-2, [11-9]; Jirat Navasirisomboon & Chanchai Sookton-Eng (Tha) bt Kittirat Kerdlaphee (Tha) & Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2, 7-6(5); Chandri Sood & Lakshit Sood bt Alex Fairbanks & Dineshkanthan Thangarajah (Sri) 6-1, 3-0 (retired).

Qualifying singles (second and final round); Vasisht Cheruku bt Yugal Bnasal 6-4, 6-7(9), 6-4.

$15,000 ITF women, Guinares, Portugal
Singles (first round): Mihika Yadav bt Lauren Proctor (US) 6-4, 5-7, 7-5.

Qualifying singles (third and final round): Mihika Yadav bt Ortega Redondo (Esp) 7-5, 6-0.