Leander paes loses to top seeds in Chengdu: Prajnesh and Ramkumar qualify for tour event in China

Leander Paes in partnership with Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela of Mexico went down fighting against the top seeds Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavic 6-4, 3-6, 5-10 in the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the ATP Tour event in Chengdu, China, on Monday.

The doubles draw in the $1,183,360 also features, Rohan Bopanna partnering Srira Balaji, while Divij Sharan and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan have their regular partners Artem Sitak of New Zealand and Austin Krajicek of the US.

Prajnesh Gunneswaran won two rounds in the singles qualifying event to assure himself 12 ATP points and set up a first round against Matteo Barrettini of Italy.

Fellow Davis Cupper Ramkumar Ramanathan did the same in another part of China, as he qualified for the ATP event in Shenzhen, and set up a first round against Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic.

The results:

$1,183,360 ATP, Chengdu, China
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ivan Dodig & Mate Pavic (Cro) bt Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (Mex) & Leander Paes 4-6, 6-3, [10-5].

Qualifying singles (second and final round): Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Hiroki Moriya (Jpn) 6-4, 6-3; First round: Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Xia Zhao (Chn) 6-2, 7-5.

$800,320 ATP, Shenzhen, China
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Ramkumar Ramanathan bt He Yecong (Chn) 6-1, 6-1; First round: Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Max Purcell (Aus) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(3).

$25,000 ITF men, Sabadell, Spain
Qualifying singles (first round): Pol Martin Tiffon (Esp) bt Mohammed Iftihar Sheikh 6-1, 6-2; Arthur Hugouneno (Fra) bt Karan Lalchandani 6-0, 6-2; Gabriel Pascotto Tumasonis (Bra) bt Venkata Gnana Bhaskar Paramatmuni 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-1; Arnau Rodriguez Queralto (Esp) bt Chinmaya Dev Chauhan 6-3, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Clement Geens (Bel) bt Ansu Bhuyan 6-2, 6-1; Anze Arh (Slo) bt Arpit Sharma 6-1, 6-2; PC Vignesh bt Ignacio Montes Cuellar (Mex) 6-0, 6-1.

Second round: Ansu Bhuyan bt Ahmed Hossam (Egy) 6-1, 6-1; Arpit Sharma bt Sebastian Murillo (US) 7-6(2), 6-3; Alexander Ovcharov (Rus) bt Vidit Vaghela 6-4, 6-4; Simone Cacciapuoti (Ita) bt Bharath-Srinivasan Parthasarathy 6-1, 6-2; PC Vignesh bt Ziad Barakat (Egy) 6-3, 6-1.

First round: Mohab Hamed (Egy) bt Arjun Mahadevan 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Qualifying singles (second round): Sultan Narbekov (Kaz) bt Krishna Teja Ankam 6-2, 6-0.

First round: Krishna Teja Ankam bt Maksim Maslov (Rus) 4-6, 6-0, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF men, Hua Hin, Thailand
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Nuttanon Kadchapanan & Palaphoom Kovapitukted (Tha) bt Suraj Prabodh & Dalwinder Singh 7-6(3), 6-3; Suthinan Tanthaseraneewat (Tha) & Ruikai Wang (Chn) bt Sidharth Rawat & Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 7-6(4), 7-6(1); Fancias Casey Alcantara (Phi) & Karunuday Singh bt Adrian Andrezejczuk (Pol) & Pascal Meis (Ger) 2-6, 6-3, [10-5].

Qualifying singles (second round): Anthony Susanto (Ina) bt Sultan Singh Atwal 6-1, 7-5; Ruikai Wang (Chn) bt Ankit Chopra 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Natthasith Kunsuwan (Tha) bt Hardeep Singh Sandhu 6-3, 6-4.

First round: Nutdanai Sincharoenwattana (Tha) bt BR Nikshep 6-2, 6-3; Sultan Singh ATwal bt Thammarat Kamchai (Tha) 2-6, 7-6(4), 6-1; Ankit Chopra bt Pattanapong Borisutpong (Tha) 6-3, 6-4; Nattasith Kunsuwan (Tha) bt Manvir Randhawa 6-1, 6-1; Hardeep Singh Sandhu bt Fah Siriwirote (Tha) 6-2, 6-2; Chowsun Sadthadarvit (Tha) bt Medhir Goyal 6-7(3), 7-5, 6-1; Ku Keon Kang (Kor) bt Akash Nandwal 6-1, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF men, Antalya, Turkey
Qualifying singles (first round): Markus Neuhauser (Aut) bt Rahul Shankar 6-2, 6-0; Ramy Labna (Egy) bt Tathagat Charantimath 6-0, 6-0.

$60,000 ITF women, Darwin, Australia
Qualifying singles (second round): Rutuja Bhosale bt Vivian Heisen (Ger) 6-1, 6-1; First round: Rutuja Bhosale bt Alicia Smith (Aus) 6-2, 6-1.

$25,000 ITF women, Obidos, Portugal
Qualifying singles (first round): Julia Stamatova (Bul) bt Saisha Khanna 6-0, 6-0.

$15,000 ITF women, Anning, China
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Hua-Chen Lee (Tpe) & Kwan Yau Ng (Hkg) bt Tiana Nikolic (Srb) & Sowjanya Bavisetti 6-4, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey
Qualifying singles (second round): Rebecca Ehn (Swe) bt Niditra Rajmohan 6-2, 3-6, 7-5; Lilly Elida Haseth (Nor) bt Sonashe Bhatnagar 6-4, 6-0.