Sasi Kumar Mukund loses to Evgeny Donskoy in Challenger

Sasi Kumar Mukund was beaten 6-2, 6-1 by seventh seed Evgeny Donskoy of Russia in the second round of the $162,480 Challenger tennis tournament in Korea on Tuesday.

Even as Ramkumar Ramanathan was set to play his singles second round after a bye in the first, there was success for the Indian players in doubles, if not for Ramkumar himself.

Sriram Balaji in partnership with Jonathan Erlich set up a quarterfinal clash against his erstwhile doubles partner Vishnu Vardhan and Toshihide Matsui.

The results:

$162,480 Challenger, Busan, Korea
Singles (second round): Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) bt Sasi Kumar Mukund 6-2, 6-1.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Cheng-Peng Hsieh (TPE) & Christopher Rungkat (INA) bt Brayden Schnur (CAN) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2, 6-4; Toshihide Matsui (JPN) & Vishnu Vardhan bt Han Seon Yong & Kim Cheong-Eui (KOR) 6-2, 2-6, [10-4]; Jonathan Erlich (ISR) & Sriram Balaji bt Jason Jung & Tsung-Hua Yang (TPE) 6-4, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Kampala, Uganda
Singles (first round): Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Simon Peter Ayella (UGA) 6-1, 6-2; Julian Bradley (IRL) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 7-6(0); Guy Orly Iradukunda (BDI) bt Kunal Anand 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; SD Prajwal Dev bt Nkanku Mukeba (COD) 6-0, 6-0.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Guy Orly Iradukunda (BDI) & Ismael Changawa Ruwa Mzai (KEN) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Niki Poonacha 3-6, 6-3, [10-8]; Kunal Anand & SD Prajwal Dev bt Sergey Bolotov & Alexey Dubinin (RUS) 6-3, 6-2.

$25,000 ITF men, Wuhan, China
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Wang Chukang (CHN) bt Karunuday Singh 7-6(2), 6-3; First round: Karunuday Singh bt Natthasith Kunsuwan (THA) 6-4, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Kampala, Uganda
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Rishi Reddy bt Ibrahim Kibet Yego (KEN) 3-6, 6-3, [12-10]; Muthu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar bt Len Schouten (NED) 7-5, 6-3.

First round: Kevin Cheruiyot (Ken) bt Dipanshu Garg 6-4, 6-3; Jurence Zosimo Mendoza (PHI) bt Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi 6-2, 6-3; Muthu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar bt Raphael Tsongo Pilipili (COD) 6-0, 6-0.

$15,000 ITF men, Tabarka, Tunisia
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Wakita Shunsuke (JPN) bt Koonwar Gupta 6-3, 6-2; First round: Koonwar Gupta bt Joao Antonio Borges (BRA) 6-4, 6-0.

$15,000 ITF men, Antalya, Turkey
Qualifying singles (first round): Mislav Bosnjak (AUS) bt Rishabdev Raman 6-3, 6-0.

(Courtesy: The Hindu)