Saketh, Ramkumar in third round of Seoul Challenger
Saketh Myneni continued with his good game and reached the third round with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over seeded player Hiroki Moriya of Japan in the $18,320 Challenger tennis tournament in Korea on Wednesday.
Ramkumar Ramanathan also reached the third round, after a bye in the first, with a fighting 6-3, 7-6(6) victory over Nam Ji Sung of Korea.
Ramkumar, in partnership with Brayden Schnur of Canada, knocked out second seeds Jonathan Erlich and Sriram Balaji, to make the doubles quarterfinals.
In the $80,000 ITF women’s event in Japan, Ankita Raina was beaten 6-0, 6-3 by Kurumi Nara of Japan in the first round.
In the ITF men’s Futures in Egypt, Anirudh Chandrasekar beat the top seed Savriyan Danilov of Russia 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 in the fist round.
Meanwhile, Leander Paes had to withdraw from the Tour event in Munich as his partner Benoit Paire fell ill.
The results:
$108,320 Challenger, Seoul, Korea
Singles (second round): Saketh Myneni bt Hiroki Moriya (JPN) 6-2, 6-1; Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Nam Ji Sung (KOR) 6-3, 7-6(6).
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Max Purcell & Luke Saville (AUS) bt Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) & Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 6-2; Brayden Schnur (CAN) & Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Jonathan Erlich (ISR) & Sriram Balaji 6-4, 7-6(4).
$25,000 ITF men, Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy
Singles (first round): Luca Prevosto (ITA) bt Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF men, Namangan, Uzbekistan
Singles (first round): Manish Surshkumar bt Daniil Glinka (EST) 6-2, 6-0; Sidharth Rawat bt Aryan Goveas 6-2, 6-2; Tim Van Rijthoven (NED) bt Rishab Agarwal 6-2, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jose Fco. Vidal Azorin (ESP) & Aryan Goveas bt Naoki Takeda (JPN) & Shahbaaz Khan 6-2, 6-2; Yan Bondarevskiy (RUS) & Ivan Liutarevich (BLR) bt Kento Takeuchi (JPN) & Rishab Agarwal 4-6, 6-2, [10-8]; Konstantin Kravchuk (RUS)& Edan Leshem (ISR) bt Sidharth Rawat & Manish Sureshkumar 7-5, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Wuhan, China
Singles (first round): Sho Shimabukuro (JPN) bt Karunuday Singh 6-3, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sora Fukuda & Yuki Mochizuki (JPN) bt Tyler Lu (USA) & Karunuday Singh 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (first round): Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Savriyan Danilov (RUS) 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Arnaud Bovy (BEL) bt Muthu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar 6-1, 6-0; Vasil Kirkov (USA) bt Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi 6-1, 6-0; Adrian Andrzejczuk (POL) bt VM Ranjeet 6-3, 6-3; Yeongseok Jeong (KOR) bt PC Vignesh 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & PC Vignesh bt Anze Arh (SLO) & Ivan Krivic (CRO) 6-3, 6-3; Valentin Vanta (ROU) & Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi bt Muthu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar & VM Ranjeet 6-3, 6-3.
$80,000 ITF women, Gifu, Japan
Singles (first round): Kurumi Nara (JPN) bt Ankita Raina 6-0, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ayaka Okuno (JPN) & Lin Zhu (CHN) bt Hiroko Kuwata (JPN) & Ankita Raina 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF women, Namangan, Uzbekistan
Singles (first round): Gergana Topalova (BUL) bt Pranjala Yadlapalli 6-3, 0-6, 4-3 (retired); Rutuja Bhosale bt Ilona Georgiana Ghioroaie (ROU) 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Alicia Barnett & Samantha Murray (GBR) bt Risa Ushijima (JPN) & Riya Bhatia 6-1, 6-1; Ilona Georgiana Ghioroaie (ROU) & Sowjanya Bavisetti w.o. Petia Arshinkova & Gergana Topalova (BUL); Eudice Chong (HKG) & Rutuja Bhosale bt Yuliya Hatouka (BLR) & Ipek Oz (TUR) 5-7, 6-1, [10-6].
$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt
Singles (first round): Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi bt Rana Sherif Ahmed (EGY) 0-6, 6-4, 7-5; Saumya Vig bt Ilaria Sposetti (ITA) 6-1, 7-5.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Elena Milovanovic (SRB) & Ilaria Sposetti (ITA) bt Tamara Bizhukova (RUS) & Niditra Rajmohan 6-0, 6-1; Lamis Alhussein Abdel Aziz (EGY) & Sravya Shivani bt Anna Makhorkina & Anastasia Zolotareva (RUS) 6-4, 6-4; Katya Malikova (UKR) & Saumya Vig bt Farah Khalil & Zeina Shaaban (EGY) 6-1, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ramu Ueda (JPN) & Jennifer Luikham bt Nicole Khirin (ISR) & Sofia Haydee Nicolini (ARG) 6-2, 6-1.
