SAKETH MYNENI BEGINS ANOTHER GOOD RUN IN ASTANA CHALLENGER

Qualifier Saketh Myneni fought his way past Aldin Setkic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-4 in the first round of the $125,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Monday.

In the ATP Tour event in Newport, Prajnesh Gunneswaran was beaten in three sets by Alessandro Bega of Italy in the first qualifying round.

The tournament will feature the return of Leander Paes, apart from Purav Raja, Divij Sharan and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan in the doubles with different partners, while Ramkumar Ramanathan will compete in the singles.

In the ITF women’s event in Thailand, Rutuja Bhosale made the second round, but Pranjala Yadlapalli was beaten by Kaylah Mcphee of Australia.

The results:

$623,710 ATP, Newport, US
Qualifying singles (first round): Alessandro Bega (Ita) bt Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.

$125,000 Challenger men, Astana, Kazakhstan
Singles (first round): Saketh Myneni bt Aldin Setkic (BIH) 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-4.

Qualifying singles (third and final round): Saketh Myneni bt Konstantin Kravchuk (Rus) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Khumoyun Sultanov (Uzb) bt Arjun Kadhe 6-1, 3-6, 6-2; Second round: Saketh Myneni bt Volodymyr Uzhylovskyi (Ukr) 4-1 (retired); Arjun Kadhe bt Anton Chekhov (Rus) 6-3, 6-1.

$75,000 Challenger men, Gatineau, Canada
Qualifying singles (first round): Makoto Ochi (Jpn) bt Suraj Prabodh 6-2, 6-0.

$25,000 ITF men, Iowa City, US
Qualifying singles (first round): Jake Van Emburgh (US) bt Mael Kes 6-0, 6-0.

$15,000 ITF men, Wels, Austria
Qualifying singles (first round): Luka Veselic (Cro) bt Koonwar Gupta 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Qualifying singles (third and final round): Yuichiro Inui (Jpn) bt Ankit Chopra 7-6(2), 6-3; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Daisuke Sumizawa (Jpn) 6-1, 6-2.

Second round: roy HObbs (Sgp) bt Vasudev Vijayaraman 6-3, 6-4; Kittirat Kerdlaphee 9Tha) bt Shubham Malhotra 7-5, 4-6, 7-5; Chanchai Sookton-Eng (Tha) bt Taha Kapadia 6-2, 6-2; Ankit Chopra bt Daniel Kossek (Pol) 6-0, 6-1; Eduardo Ribeiro (Bra) bt Mohit Bhardwaj 6-3, 6-4; Shamael Chaudhry (GBR) bt Gaurang 6-4, 4-6, 6-0; Marco Brugnerotto (Ita) bt Jatin Dahiya 2-0 (retired); Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Naesar Jewoor 6-1, 6-2.

First round: Vasudev Vijayaraman bt Davinder Rana 6-0, 6-2; Roy Hobbs bt Vamit Arora 6-1, 6-1; Nikit Reddy (US) bt Krishna Teja Ankam 6-4, 6-3; Shubham Malhotra bt Kirill Soluyanov (Rus) 6-1, 6-4; Taha Kapadia bt Dipanshu Garg 6-1, 6-1; Phongsapak Kerdlaphee (Tha) bt Sai Nikhil Mannepalli 6-7(8), 7-5, 6-2; Ahmed Choudhary (Pak) bt Ribhav Ravikiran 6-0, 6-0; Yuichi Inui (Jpn) bt Parav Dev Garg 6-2, 6-0; Ankit Chopra bt Anshuman Gulia 6-4, 6-4; Daiel Kossek (Pol) bt Jagmeet Singh 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-4; Thomas Hann (Aus) bt Dheeraj Kodancha 6-3, 6-4; Mohit Bhardwaj bt Sang-Woo Noh (Kor) 6-0, 6-0; Gaurang bt Marino Pascual (Aus) 6-3, 6-1; Jatin Dahiya bt Chinmay Pradhan 6-4, 5-7, 6-2; Daisuke Sumizawa (Jpn) bt Vivek Gautam 6-4, 6-1; Jera Staley (Aus) bt Amit Beniwal 6-1, 5-1 (retired); Naesar Jewoor bt Chinmay Bakshi 6-1, 6-1; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Thanapet Chanta (Tha) 6-2, 6-1; Mohammad Abid Ali Khan Akbar (Pak) bt Rishi Reddy 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.

$25,000 ITF women, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Singles (first round): Kaylah Mcphee (Aus) bt Pranjala Yadlapalli 6-2, 6-3; Rutuja Bhosale bt Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Tha) 6-2, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF women, Jakarta, Indonesia
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Jiakang Li (Chn) bt Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Fitriana Sabrina (Ina) bt Snehal Mane 6-1, 6-0; Bhuvana Kalva bt Michiru Furuya (Jpn) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1.

First round: Chihiro Takayama (Jpn) bt Nidhi Surapaneni 3-6, 6-3, 6-3; Rhiannon Mcblane (Aus) bt gurleen Singh 6-3, 6-3; Rifanty Kahfiani 9Ina) bt Nithya Raj 7-6(2), 7-6(4); Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy bt Avika Sagwal 6-2, 6-1; Snehal Mane bt Qianxin Kong (Chn) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; Nagisa Morimoto (Jpn) bt Saumya Vig 7-5, 6-4; Bhuvana Kalva bt Ai Kamiyoshihara (Jpn) 6-3, 6-4.