Ramakumar Ramanthan played singles and doubles in Newport, ATP on grass. He had a disappointing loss in first round qualifying in singles but in doubles along with his Australian partner JP Smith reached the SF.’
Rohan Bopanna joined back with Matwe Middlekoop with whom he had reached French open semi final but lost in first round at Bastad ATP.
These are their results this week-
At Newport ATP 250, USA (Grass)
[Q1] (5) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,169) l. (WC) William Blumberg (USA,785), 63 57 46
[R1] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / John=Patrick Smith (AUS) d. (2) Hans Hach Verdugo (MEX) / Hunter Reese (USA) 63 64
[QF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / John Patrick Smith (AUS) d. Radu Albot (MDA) / Treat Huey (PHI) 61 64
[SF] Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) / John=Patrick Smith (AUS) l. William Blumberg (USA) / Steve Johnson (USA) 46 46
At Swedish Open, Bastad (Clay)
[R1] (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Matwe Middlekoop (NED) l. Franko Skugor (CRO) / Fabrice Martin (FRA) 67(3) 36
ATP Challenger Tour
Only Sumit and Mukund played singles at qualfiers for challengers in Europe and USA respectively but Sumit lost in first round of qualifying against 2021 French Open runner up and Mukund lost in second qualifying round.
In doubles, pairs of Yuki-Saketh, Jeevan-Balaji and Arjun with his partner lost in the QF’s of their respective challengers.
These results of our players this week in challengers-
At Rome Challenger 80, USA
[Q1] (7) Mukund Sasikumar (IND,431) d. Kaito Uesugi (JPN,1120) 46 76(5) 61
[Q2] (7) Mukund Sasikumar (IND,431) l. (2) Michail Pervolaralis (GRE,389) 36 64 36
[R1] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Jeevan Nedubcheziyan (IND) d. Toshihide Matsui (JPN) / Kaito Uesugi (JPN) 46 63 10-7
[QF] (1) N. Sriram Balaji (IND) / Jeevan Nedubcheziyan (IND) l. Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) / Sho Shimaburuko (JPN) 46 26
At Amersfoort Challenger, Netherlands (Clay)
[Q1] Sumit Nagal (IND,525) l. (7) Aurther Fils (FRA) 16 46
[R1] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Saketh Myneni (IND) d. Javier Barranco Cosano (ESP) / Johan Nikles (SUI) 76(6) 75
[R1] Vijay Sunder Prashanth (IND) / Anirudh Chandrashekhar (IND) l. (1) Nicolas Barrientos (VEN) / Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela (MEX) 06 36
[QF] (4) Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Saketh Myneni (IND) l. Aurther Fils (FRA) / Luca Van Assche (FRA) 63 67(6) 9-11
At Iasi Challenger, Romania (Clay)
[R1] Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Petros Tsitsipas (GRE) d. Grigoriy Lomakin (KAZ) / Oleg Prihodko (UKR) 63 36 10-7
[QF] Arjun Kadhe (IND) / Petros Tsitsipas (GRE) l. (2) Diego Hidalgo (ECU) / Christian Rodriguez
ITF Tour
Prajnesh made his comeback from close to 3 months injury break in a 25K futures in Kazakhstan and made it thru to the SF before losing to local player in 3 close sets. He will continue at a challenger there next week.
Both Ankita Raina and Prathana Thombre had good weeks with Ankita winning the title at W25 in Kazakhstan and Prarthan reaching the final at W60 in Latvia. After this week Prartha will make her way back into top 200 and Ankita is getting closer top 125.
These are their results this week –
At M25 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
[R1] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,303) d. (WC) Shin Maxim (UZB,1207) 63 61
[R2] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,303) d Yanki Erel (TUR,492) 62 64
[QF] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,303) d. (Q) Zura Tkemaladze (GEO,1108) 76(3) 62
[SF] (2) Prajnesh Gunneswaran (IND,303) l. Beibit Zhukayev (KAZ,473) 64 36 46
At W25 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
[R1] Ankita Raina (IND,346) d. Ilay Yoruk (TUR,591) 63 60
[R2] Ankita Raina (IND,346) l. (2) Mariam Bolkvadze (GEO,174) 16 36
[R1] (2) Ankita Raina (IND) / Momoko Kobori (JPN) d. Anastasia Sukhotina (RUS) / Ilay Yoruk (TUR) 75 61
[QF] (2) Ankita Raina (IND) / Momoko Kobori (JPN) d. Gozal Ainitdinova (KAZ) / Anna Kubareva (RUS) 16 61 10-5
[SF] (2) Ankita Raina (IND) / Momoko Kobori (JPN) d. Mariia Tkacheva (RUS) / Anastasia Zolotareva (RUS) 64 63
[F] (2) Ankita Raina (IND) / Momoko Kobori (JPN) d. (1) Ji-Hee Cho (KOR) / Na-Lae Han (KOR) 62 36 8-10
At W60 Liepaja, Latvia (Clay)
[R1] (3) Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Emily Appleton (GBR) d. Anneta Laboutkova (CZE) / Marine Partaud (FRA) 64 75
[QF] (3) Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Emily Appleton (GBR) d. Lu Jing-Jing (CHN) / Yuan Yue (CHN) 46 63 10-6
[SF] (3) Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Emily Appleton (GBR) d. Nafisa Berberovic (BIH) / Martina Colegmana (ITA) 63 64
[F] (3) Prarthana Thombre (IND) / Emily Appleton (GBR) l. Dalia Jacupovic (SRB) / Ivana Jorovic (SRB) 46 36
