ATP Challenger Tour
Sumit Nagal returned to clay this week in Valencia, Spain but lost in first round against lucky loser. In the same challenger Vijay Sunder Prashanth and Jeevan Nedunzheziyan made it to their third consecutive week of SF at challenger level. Sumit Nagal was back on the challenger tour this week and had his best week on indoor hard courts by reaching the final beating quote a few successful hard courters on the way before losing to Frenchman Contantin Moutet in the final of big Helsinki Challenger. Before this week, Sumit had only played 3 weeks on indoor hard courts and won just 1 round.
These are results of our players at challenger level this week.
At Valencia Challenger 100, Spain (Clay)
[R1] Sumit Nagal (IND,141) l. (LL) Alejandro Moro Canas (ESP,249) 46 36
[R1] (3) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) d. Riccardo Bonadio (ITA) / Alessandro Giannessi (ITA) 63 76(5)
[R1] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Ivan Liutarevich (RUS) d. Michael Geerts (BEL) / Joshua Paris (GBR) 63 61
[QF] (3) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) d. Scott Duncan (GBR) /Kelsey Stevenson (CAN) 62 62
[R1] Anirudh Chandrasekar (IND) / Ivan Liutarevich (RUS) l. Daniel Rincon (ESP) / Oriol Roca Batalla (ESP) 67(6) 62 2-10
[SF] (3) N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (IND) / Jeevan Neduncheziyan (IND) l. (1) Andrea Pellegrino (ITA) / Andrea Vavassori (ITA) 46 46
At Yoklohoma Challenger 75, Japan (Hard)
[R1] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Divij Sharan (IND) l. (2) Andrew Harris (AUS)/ Ji Sung Nam (KOR) 67(5) 64 9-11
[R1] (4) Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) / Arjun Kadhe (IND) l. Toshihide Matsui (JPN) /Kaito Uesugi (JPN) 46 67(3)
ITF Tour
2 weeks of action began on both mens and womens ITF tour this week- 2 M25’s in men and a W25 followed by W15 in Women.
And doing justice to the home tournaments, both the tournaments saw all Indian finals in singles when none of the Indians were seeded too reach finals,
Ramkumar Ramanathan won double crown in M25 in Mumbai, winning singles title beating fellow Indian Siddharth Vishwakarma in final and won the doubles title along with Purav Raja. Ramkumar has been quietly making a comeback in singles after a poor year and this is his second singles title at M25 level in last couple of months.
In W25 in Bengaluru, 21 year Shrivalli Rashmika Bhamidipatty won her first ITF title beating fellow Indian Zeel Desai in final. Zeel had also made her first final at W25 level. Before this Shrivalli and Zeel had upset the top 2 seeds and top 250 players in earlier rounds.
Both Shrivalli and Zeel will go to their career high rankings after this at around 515-520 level.
These are results SF onwards-
At Mumbai M25
[SF] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,642) d. (2) Louis Wessels (GER,360) 76(3) 63
[SF] Siddharth Vishwakarma (IND,874) d. Harrison Adams (USA,969) 76(5) 64
[F] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,642) d. Siddharth Vishwakarma (IND,874) 60 64
At Bengaluru W25
[SF] Shrivalli Rashmika Bhamidapatty (IND,706) d. (2) Lanlana Tararudee (THA,235) 62 61
[SF] Zeel Desai (IND,625) d. (3) Rutuja Bhosale (IND,342) 36 64 75
[F] Shrivalli Rashmika Bhamidapatty (IND,706) d. Zeel Desai (IND,625) 60 46 63
While others were playing in India, our womens #1 player Ankita Raina played in W60 tournament in Australia but lost in first round against lower ranked Japanese player.
Ankita reached doubles semi final while Prarthana Thombre played here too and reached doubles QF.