RAMKUMAR FIRES HIS WAY TO SECOND ROUND IN NOTTINGHAM CHALLENGER

Davis Cupper and fifth seed Ramkumar Ramanathan fired 18 aces on his way to a 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-4 victory over Jason Jung of Chinese Taipei in the first round of the 127,000 Challenger tennis tournament on grass in Nottingham, UK, on Monday.

In the ATP Tour event at s-Hertogenbosch, Daniil Medvedev of Russia defeated Yuki Bhambri 6-4, 6-1 in the first round.

In the doubles pre-quarterfinals, Purav Raja in partnership with Fabrice Martin of France progressed into the quarterfinals, following a hard-earned 7-5, 7-5 victory over alternates, Marius Copil and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

In the ITF men’s Futures in Harare, Dhruv Sunish knocked out fourth seed Darko Bojanovic 6-2, 6-4 in the first round. In another match, Niki Poonacha knocked out the seventh seed.

The results:

€ 686,080 ATP, s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Singles (first round): Daniil Medvedev (Rus) bt Yuki Bhambri 6-4, 6-1.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Fabrice Martin (Fra) & Purav Raja bt Marius Cpil (Rou) & Stefanos Tsitsipas (Gre) 7-5, 7-5.

€127,000 Challenger men, Nottingham, UK
Singles (first round): Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Jason Jung (Tpe) 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Singels (first round): Manish Sureshkumar bt Jirat Navasirisomboon Tha) 6-1, 6-1; Ignacio Carou (Arg) bt Kunal Anand 5-7, 6-3, 6-0; Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-4, 7-5; Chandril Sood bt Darko Jandric (Srb) 6-3, 6-2.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Calum Puttergill (Aus) & Giovani Samaha (Lbn) bt Vasisht Cheruku & SD Prajwal Dev 6-3, 7-5; Mohit Mayur & Manish Sureshkumar bt Tyler Mercier (US) & Shunsuke Wakita (Jpn) 6-2, 6-2; Naoki Takeda (Jpn) & Gokul Suresh bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam & VM Ranjeet 6-4, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF men, Harare, Ziimbabwe
Singles (first round): Benjamin Lock (Zim) bt Anurag Nenwani 6-2, 6-3; Dhruv Sunish bt Darko Bojanovic (BIH) 6-2, 6-4; Niki Poonacha bt Siphosothando Montsi (RSA) 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Lance-Pierre Du Toit (RSA) & Anurag Nenwani bt Jason Chigazira & Mark Chigazira (Zim) 6-1, 6-1; Anirudh Chandrasekar & PC Vignesh bt Jayesh Pungliya & Dhruv Sunish 6-4, 6-1.

$25,000 ITF women, Singapore
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Alexandra Bozovic & Alicia Smith (Aus) bt Ramu Lleda (Jpn) & Riya Bhatia 7-5, 6-2.