Ramkumar beats Alexandre Muller in France

Ramkumar Ramanthan beat Alexandre Muller of France 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the €137,560 Challenger tennis tournament in Orleans, France, on Tuesday.

Ramkumar who served nine aces and converted three of seven breakpoints that he forced, will play the seventh seed Gregoire Barrere of France in the second round.

In the ATP Tour event in Zhuhai, China, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan in partnership with Momir Kecmanovic of Serbia was beaten 10-6 in the super tie-break in the doubles pre-quarterfinals by Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen of Belgium.

In the ITF women’s event in Tabarka, Tunisia, Jennifer Luikham beat third seed Noella Zeballos of Bolivia 6-4, 6-3 in the first round. She will play compatriot and qualifier Humera Shaik who led 6-3, 2-2 when her opponent Margaux Rouvroy of France retired.

In the iTF men’s Futures in Italy, the reigning national champion Siddharth Vishwakarma was beaten 6-3, 7-5 by Marco Corino of Italy in the first round of the qualifying event.

The results:
$1,000,000 ATP, Zhuhai, China
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sander Gille & Joran Vliegen (BEL) bt Momir Kecmanovic (SRB) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 4-6, 6-3, [10-6].

€ 137,560 Challenger, Oleans, France
Singles (first round): Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Alexandre Muller (FRA) 6-4, 6-4.

$25,000 ITF men, Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy
Qualifying singles (first round): Marco Corino (ITA) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-3, 7-5.

$25,000 ITF men, Oliveira De Azemeis, Portugal
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Goncalo Falcao (POR) bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa 6-2, 6-2; Terence Das bt Arjun Mehrotra (AUS) 6-4, 6-7(2), [10-4].

$15,000 ITF men, Nanchang, China
Singles (first round): Yuanfeng Li (CHN) bt Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-0, 7-5; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Huixin Wang (CHN) 6-3, 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt bIngyu Yu & Weiqiang Zheng (CHN) 6-3, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt
Qualifying singles (second round): Ali Zaghloul (EGY) bt Sahil Aware 6-3, 6-2.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Mayeul Darras & Pierre Delage (FRA) bt Muzammil Murtaza (PAK) & Dhruv Sunish 7-6(3), 4-6, [10-7]; Mahmoud Ezzat & Ahmed Mounir (EGY) bt Zura Tkemaladze (GEO) & Gunjan Jadhav 6-2, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Melilla, Spain
Qualifying singles (first round): Emilien Voisin (FRA) bt Chinmaya Dev Chauhan 6-1, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF men, Antalya, Turkey
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) & Adil Kalyanpur bt Alejandro Hoyos Franco (COL) & Antonio Cayetano March (ECU) 6-4, 7-6(6).

$15,000 ITF women, Anning, China
Singles (first round): Sowjanya Bavisetti bt Honoka Kobayashi (JPN) 6-0, 7-6(5).

$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt
Qualifying singles (second and final round): Hana El Deeb (EGY) bt Avika Sagwal 6-1, 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Hla El-Sakka & Dareen Elleithy (EGY) bt Kenzy Ramy (EGY) & Aaliya Ebrahim 6-2, 6-2; Aya El Sayed & Nermeen Shawky (EGY) bt Sathwika Sama & Saumya Vig 4-6, 6-2, [10-5]; Tamara Bizhukova (RUS) & Avika Sagwal bt Nada Fouad & Mema REfaat (EGY) 6-3, 6-2.

$15,000 ITF women, Johannesburg, South Africa
Singles (first round): Zeel Desai bt Snehal Mane 6-1, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF women, Tabarka, Tunisia
Singles (first round): Humera Shaik bt Margaux Rouvroy (FRA) 6-3, 2-2 (retired); Jennifer Luikham bt Noella Zeballos (BOL) 6-4, 6-3.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anfisa Danilchenko (RUS) & Jennifer Luikham w.o. Sophia Biolay & Margaux Rouvroy (FRA).

(Courtesy: The Hindu)