ATP/WTA Tour
India’s only ATP tour event in Pune was back after 1 year break due to covid and it was a great opportunity for Indian players. In singles only Yuki Bhambri who entered on his protected ranking one a round in main draw with excellent win over Josef Kovalik. Other Indians in main draw, Ramkumar, Prajnesh and Arjun Kadhe all lost in first round. But, all of them looked competitive and gave a fight to their much higher ranked opponents.
It was much better performance by Indian in doubles. Second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan won their second ATP title beating top seeded Australian pair in the final. Siriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan made the semi final, while Saketh Myneni and Sasi Kumar Mukund made the QF and took a set off Australian top seeds.
These are results for our players in Pune-
At Pune ATP 250
Singles-
[Q1] (WC) Manish Sureshkumar (IND,675) l. (8) Vit Kopriva (CZE,195) 26 36
[Q1] (WC) Sasikumar Mukund (IND,356) l. (1) Altug Celikbilek (TUR,165) 36 36
[R1] Yuki Bhambri (IND,862) d. Jozef Kovalik (SVK,151) 67(10) 62 75
[R1] (WC) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,228) l. (5) Daniel Altmaier (GER,85) 67(5) 26
[R1] (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND,778) l. Joao Sousa (POR, 140) 76(5) 67(4) 26
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,182) l. (8) Stefan Trvalgia (ITA,93) 67(7) 64 36
[R2] Yuki Bhambri (IND,862) l. (8) Stefan Trvalgia (ITA,93) 36 26
Doubles –
[R1] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Rohan Bopanna (IND) d. James Cerretani (USA) /Nicolas Monroe (USA) 63 36 10-7
[R1] (Alt) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND) / Saketh Myneni (IND) d. (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Divij Sharan (IND) 63 64
[R1] (Alt) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) d. (WC) Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Purav Raja (IND) 61 64
[QF] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Rohan Bopanna (IND) d. Alexander Erler (AUT) / Jiri Vesely (CZE) 76(3) 76(4)
[QF] (Alt) Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND) / Saketh Myneni (IND) l. (1) Luke Saville (AUS) / John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 63 75 3-10
[QF] (Alt) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) d. (Alt) Gianluca Mager (ITA) / Lorenzo Musetti (ITA) walkover
[SF] (Alt) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Vishnu Vardhan (IND) l. (1) Luke Saville (AUS) / John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 26 46
[SF] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Rohan Bopanna (IND) d. Sadio Doumbia (FRA) / Fabian Reboul (IND) 64 46 12-10
[F] (2) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / Rohan Bopanna (IND) d. (1) Luke Saville (AUS) / John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 6710 63 10-6
ATP Challenger Tour
Vijay Sunder Prashanth and Aniruddha Chandrashekhar played at Cleveland Challenger, USA and won a round.
[R1] Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) / Aniruddha Chandrashekhar (IND) d. Yohishito Nishioka (JPN) / Kaichi Uchida (JPN) 63 60
[QF] Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) / Anirudh Chandrashekhar (IND) l. Alex Lawson (USA) / Reese Stalder (USA) 06 36
ITF Tour
Rutuja Bhosale played singles qualifying and doubles in Sharm El Sheikh and made it to double semi final with her Hongkong partner.
[Q1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,508) bye
[Q2] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,508) d. Isabelle Haverlag (NED,1494) 36 67(3)
[Q3] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,508) l. Anzhelika Isaeva (RUS,668) 46 26
[R1] (3) Rutuja Bhosale (IND) / Eudice Chong (HKG) d. Yulia Hatuoka (BLR) / Marina Melnikova (RUS) 37 76(2) 10-5
[QF] (3) Rutuja Bhosale (IND) / Eudice Chong (HKG) d.Sakura Hosogi (JPN) / Polina Kudermetova (RUS) 62 62
[SF] (3) Rutuja Bhosale (IND) / Eudice Chong (HKG) l. Irina Fetecau (ROU) / Simona Waltert (SUI) 76(2) 26 7-10
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