PURAV RAJA IN QUARTERFINALS OF BORDEAUX CHALLENGER WITH FABRICE MARTIN
Purav Raja, seeded second in partnership with Fabrice Martin of France, sailed into the doubles quarterfinals with a 7-5, 6-0 victory over Hans Podlipnik-Castillo of Chile and Jackson Withrow of US in the 106,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Bordeaux, France, on Monday.
In the ITF men’s Futures in Uganda, Kaza Vinayak Sharma, Kunal Anand, SD Prajwal Dev and qualifier Dhruv Sunish moved into the pre-quarterfinals, without dropping a set between them.
In the $25,000 ITF women’s event in Wuhan, Rutuja Bhosale made the doubles quarterfinals with Emily Webley-Smith of Britain, but Karman Kaur Thandi lost her pre-quarterfinals of doubles 1-10 in the super tie-break with Beatrice Gumulya of Indonesia.
The results:
€106,000 Challenger men, Bordeaux, France
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Fabrice Martin (Fra) & Purav Raja bt Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (Chi) & Jackson Withrow (US) 7-5, 6-0 .
$75,000 Challenger men, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Qualifying singles (second round): Manuel Pena Lopez (Arg) bt Arjun Kadhe 6-4, 6-3; Sasi Kumar Mukund bt Mikhail Fufygin (Rus) 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Prague, Czech Republic
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Kai Wehnelt (Ger) bt Alex Solanki 6-1, 6-1; Second round: Alex Solanki bt David Cierny (Svk) 6-3, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF men, Singapore
Qualifyign singles (first round): Congsuo Congcar (Tha) bt Praneeth Venugopal 6-0, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF men, Barcelona, Spain
Qualifying singles (first round): Pol Feixas Panella (Esp) bt Venkata Gnana Bhaskar Paramatmuni 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Jerba, Tunisia
Qualifying singles (first round): Edward Harwood (GbR) bt Rajendra Kedam 6-3, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Antalya, Turkey
Qualifying singles (first round): Neil Oberleitner (Aut) bt Neeraj Yashpaul 2-6, 6-2, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Kampala, Uganda
Singles (first round): Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Boris Aguma (Uga) 6-0, 6-2; Kunal Anand bt Yacoub Makzoume (Syr) 6-3, 6-2; SD Prajwal Dev bt Nicolas Uryson (Arg) 6-4, 6-1; Dhruv Sunish bt Arturs Lazdins (Lat) 7-5, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jayesh Pungliya & Dhruv Sunish bt Boris Aguma (Uga) & Ibrahim Kibet Yego (Ken) 6-0, 6-1; Giovani Samaha (Lbn) & Kunal Anand bt Ahmed Choudhary (Pak) & Nicolas Uryson (Arg) 6-1, 7-5; Kaza Vinayak Sharma & VM Ranjeet bt Lance-Pierre Du Toit (RSA) & Arturs Lazdins (Lat) 6-4, 6-3; Vasisht Cheruku & SD Prajwal Dev bt Jordan Parker & Emmett Ward (US) 6-0, 6-1.
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Dhruv Sunish bt Ibrahim Kibet Yego (Ken) 6-0, 7-6(4); Rishi Reddy bt Jordan Parker (US) 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; Vasisht Cheruku bt Paras Dahiya 7-5, 6-3.
First round: Dhruv Sunish bt Prashanth Selvaraj 6-1, 6-3; Lance-Pierre Du Toit (RSA) bt Kunj Kotak 7-5, 6-0; Jordan Parker (US) bt Kavan Somu Kumar 6-2, 6-1; Rishi Reddy bt Simonn Peter Ayella (Uga) 6-4, 6-3; Anton Chekhov (Rus) bt Ansu Bhuyan 6-2, 6-3; Paras Dahiya bt Sergey Dorozhkin (Rus) 6-4, 6-2; Vasisht Cheruku bt Sahil Gaware 6-4, 7-6(2).
$15,000 ITF men, Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Paramveer Singh Bajwa bt Chanchal Sookton-Eng (Tha) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4; Niki Poonacha bt Volrachon Rakpuangchon (Tha) 6-2, 6-2.
First round: Alexander Crnokrak (Aus) bt Digvijay Singh Mehta 6-0, 6-2; Paramveer Singh Bajwa bt Sam Ryan Ziegannn (Aus) 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF women, Wuhan, China
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) & Rutuja Bhosale bt Yile Cheng & Sijia Wei (Chn) 6-2, 6-4; Shilin Xu & Yue Yuan (Chn) bt Beatrice Gumulya (Ina) & Karman Kaur Thandi 4-6, 6-4, [10-1].
$25,000 ITF women, Incheon, Korea
Qualifying singles (second round): Makoto Ninomiya (Jpn) bt Sowjanya Bavisetti 6-3, 6-2; First round: Sowjanya Bavisetti bt Yuqi Sheng (Chn) 6-4, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF women, Hammamet, Tunisia
Qualifying singles (first round): Silvia Tumova (Svk) bt Annika Kannan 6-2, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Jennifer Luikham bt Maria Tkacheva (Rus) 6-1, 7-5; First round: Jennifer Luikham bt Anri Nagata (Jpn) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.
