Sumit Nagal knocks down eighth seed in French Challenger
Sumit Nagal knocked out eighth seed Quentyn Halys of France 6-3, 6-2 on clay in the second round of the €92,040 Challenger in Lyon, France, on Wednesday.
In the Nottingham Challenger on grass, Saketh Myneni beat Mats Morang of Germany 7-6(2), 6-3 in the first round.
In the ITF men’s Futures in Hong Kong, Sidharth Rawat reached the pre-quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Andrej Glvac of Slovakia.
In the ITF women’s circuit in Portugal, Muskan Gupta and Sathwika Sama combined well to make the doubles quarterfinals.
The results:
€ 137,560 Challenger, Nottingham, England
Singles (first round): Saketh Myneni bt Mats Morang (GER) 7-6(2), 6-3.
€ 92,040 Challenger, Lyon, France
Singles (second round): Sumit Nagal bt Quentin Halys (FRA) 6-3, 6-2.
$ 54,160 Challenger, Columbus, US
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Li Zhe (CHN) & Yasutaka Uchiiyama (JPN) bt Volodoymyr Uzhylovskyi (UKR) & Arjun Kadhe 6-4, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF men, Shenzhen, China
Singles (first round): Yu Hsiou Hsu (TPE) bt Karunuday Singh 6-2, 6-1.
$25,000 ITF men, Hong Kong
Sinlges (first round): Sidharth Rawat bt Andrej Glvac (SVK) 6-4, 6-4; Shintaro Imai (JPN) bt Vijay Sundar Prasshanth 6-2, 6-4; Maksim Tikhomirov (US) bt Muthu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jayden Court & Alexander Crnokrak (AUS) bt Jose Fco. Vidal Azorin (ESP) & Vijay Sundar Prashanth 7-5, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF men, Singapore
Singles (first round): Jesse Delaney (AUS) bt Atharva Sharma 6-0, 6-2; Aldan Mchugh (GBR) bt Siddhant Banthia 7-5, 6-1; Thanapet Chanta (THA) bt Jagmeet Singh 6-3, 6-3; Shahin Khaledan (IRI) bt Gokul Suresh 6-4, 6-4; Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) bt Vidit Vaghela 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Congsup Congcar (THA) & Kazuki NIshiwaki (JPN) bt Kunal Anand & Jatin Dahiya 6-3, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF women, Gimcheon, Korea
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shou Na Mu & Zhuoma Ni Ma (CHN) bt Man Ying Maggie Ng (HKG) & Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 4-6, 6-1, [10-7].
$15,000 ITF women, Amarante, Portugal
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Muskan Gupta & Sathwika Sama bt Emma Mazzoni & Juliette Mazzoni (FRA) 6-0, 7-6(3).
(Courtesy: The Hindu)
