India’s Manish Sureshkumar got the better of Switzerland’s Luca Castelnuovo in the first qualifying round of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger tournament in Chennai on Sunday.
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Four Indians-Manish Sureshkumar, Dev Javia, Siddharth Vishwakarma and Chirag Duhan- made it to the second and final qualifying round of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger tennis tournament at the Nungambakkam Stadium here on Sunday.
Chirag, Siddharth and Manish knocked out seeded players in the first round of qualifying. Chirag, aged 21 and ranked No. 962 in the world, upset the third seed Evgenii Tiurnev, ranked more than 600 places higher than the Indian, 6-4, 6-2 while 30-year-old Siddharth, ranked No. 771 in the world, defeated the eighth seed Dominik Palan, ranked No. 537, 6-3, 6-1. Manish upset the 12th seed Swiss Luca Castelnuovo 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Three Indians–Ramkumar Ramanathan, Mukund Sasikumar and Karan Singh– will feature in the main draw after receiving wildcard entries. Great Britain’s Billy Harris, ranked No 129 in the world, and South African Lloyd Harris, ranked No 142, are the top seeds in the main draw.
The results (Qualifying, I round, Indians unless otherwise mentioned): Kimmer Coppejans (Bel) bt Varun Verma 6-2, 6-1; Sascha Gueymard Wayenburg (Fra) bt Ray Ho (Tpe) 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2); Chirag Duhan bt Evgenii Tiurnev (Rus) 6-4, 6-2; Hynek Barton (Cze) bt Kaito Uesugi (Jpn) 6-2, 6-2; Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) bt Sidhart Rawat 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; Yurii Dzhavakian (Ukr) bt Risabh Agarwal 6-4, 6-3; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Dominik Palan (Cze) 6-3, 6-1; Olaf Pieczkowski (Pol) bt Bharath Nishok Kumaran 7-6 (1), 6-0; Dev Javia bt Keerthivassan Suresh 6-4, 6-2; Maxim Zhukov (Rus) bt Siddhant Banthia 6-2, 6-2; Manish Sureshkumar bt Luca Castelhnuovo (Sui) 7-6(5), 6-4.
Published – February 02, 2025 08:17 pm IST