Ramkumar in quarterfinals of Glasgow Challenger

Ramkumar Ramanathan cruised past Botic Van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands 6-4, 6-1 in the pre-quarterfinals of the 46,600 Challenger in Glasgow on Thursday.

The fifth seeded Ramkumar converted four of five breakpoints that he forced, and did not face a breakpoint, in reaching the quarterfinals.

Meanwhile, second seed Prajnesh Gunneswaran was beaten 5-7, 7-5, 6-4 by Enrique Lopez Pere of Spain in the pre-quarterfinals of the $162,480 Challenger tennis tournament in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei.

Prajnesh collected $2,580 and 10 ATP points.

In the ATP Tour event in St. Petersburg, Divij Sharan in partnership with Igor Zelenay of Svloakia beat the third seeds Marcelo Demoliner and Matwe Middelkoop 3-6, 6-2, 10-5 in the doubles pre-quarterfinals.

In the ITF women’s event in Anning, China, Sowjanya Bavisetti inn partnership with Oleksandra Oliynykova of Croatia knocked out the second seeds Jiaxi Lu and Dan Ni Wang of China 3-6, 6-3, 10-3 in the doubles quarterfinals.

The results:

$1,248,645 ATP, St. Petersburg, Russia
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Igor Zelenay (SVK) & Divij Sharan bt Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) & Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 3-6, 6-2, [10-5].

€ 586,140 ATP, Metz, France
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Gerard Granollers & Marcel Granollers (ESP) bt Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) & Purav Raja 6-3, 6-4.

$162,480 Challenger, Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Enrique Lopez Perez (ESP) bt Prajnesh Gunneswaran 5-7, 7-5, 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Chun-Hsin Tseng & Tung-Lin Wu (TPE) bt Sriram Balaji & Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 7-6(6).

€ 46,600 Challenger, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Botic Van De Zandschulp (NED) 6-4, 6-2; Second round: Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Altug Celikbilek (TUR) 6-4, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Nanchang, China
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ryota Tanuma (JPN) bt Prithvi Sekhar 6-0, 6-0; Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Pol Wattanakul (THA) 6-0, 6-4; Dusty Boyer (US) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar 6-1, 7-5.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Luca Castelnuovo (SUI) & Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Pol Wattanakul (THA) & Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Edoardo Lavagno (ITA) bt Dhruv Sunish 6-3, 6-4.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Muzammil Murtaza (PAK) & Dhruv Sunish bt stefano Battaglino (ITA) & Bart van den Berg (NED) 7-5, 2-6, [10-7].

$15,000 ITF men, Antalya, Turkey
Doubles (quarterfinals): Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) & Adil Kalyanpur bt Lasse Muscheites & Ssebastian Prechtel (GER) 6-4, 3-6, [10-7].

$25,000 ITF women, Roehampton, Britain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Emily Appleton & Emily Arbuthnott (GBR) bt Julia Terziyska (BUL) & Prarthana Thombare 6-4, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF women, Anning, China
Doubles (quarterfinals): Oleksandra Oliynykova (CRO) & Sowjanya Bavisetti bt Jiaxi lu & Dan Ni Wang (CHN) 3-6, 6-3, [10-3].

(Courtesy: The Hindu)