Prithvi Sekhar

Prithvi Sekhar bounced back from a bad start to beat Deaflympics silver medallist Andres Vazquez 0-6, 6-4, 6-1 as India secured the seventh place with a 2-1 victory over Ecuador in the Deaf Tennis World Championship in Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday.

After DH Prashanth gave a flying start by outplaying Jean Carlos Santana 6-0, 6-1, Prithvi stumbled to a bad start before settling into his fighting best.

Prithvi Sekhar fought his way past Cukang Wang of China 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 in the first round of the $15,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament in China on Tuesday.

In another tournament in Thailand, Nitin Kumar Sinha beat Kelsey Stevenson of Canada 7-5, 5-7, 7-5.

In the ITF women’s tournament in Thailand, top seed Pranjala Yadlapalli was beaten in three sets after a bright start, in the first round.

The results: