ATP Challenger Tour
The only Indians who played at challenger level this week was the pair of Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Rithvik Choudhary at a challenger in Hungary. They lost in the QF there.
At Kiskút Open Challenger 75, Hungary (Clay)
[R1] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) d. (WC) Attila Boros (HUN) / Botond Kisantal (HUN) 64 64
[QF] Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha (IND) / Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (IND) l. Franco Agamenone (ITA) / Santiago Rodriguez Taverna (ITA) 67(5) 62 8-10
ITF tour
There were 2 ITF events this week on either side—Mens M25 in New Delhi and Womens W35 in Indore.
Indian enjoyed great success in these tournaments with men’s singles title (and an all Indian final) in New Delhi and also doubles title in veteran Vishnu Vardhan and Sindhant Banthia..
Ramkumar Ramanathan won his 4th straight title at these M25 tournaments in India in last 4 months. He was completely dominant this week and won without losing a set. But, big tournament too for 20 year Karan Singh who had biggest win of his career thus far in the SF against former top 70 player Donskoy and made his first ITF final.
With this title Ramkumar will move up to around 360 and close to making main draws of some challengers and Karan Singh will move upto around 670 and to India #6.
These are singles results from QF onwards-
[QF] Karan Singh (IND.730) d. Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,794) 61 64
[QF] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,409) d (7) Siddharth Vishwakarma (IND,662) 64 62
[QF] Manish Sureshkumar (IND,877) l. (5) Nam Hoang Ly (VIE,488) 46 46
[SF] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,409) d. (5) Nam Hoang Ly (VIE,488) 62 64
[SF] Karan Singh (IND,730) d. (1) Evgeny Donskoy (RUS,267) 63 64
[F] (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,409) d (3) Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND,409)
In Indore, Shrivalli Rashmika Bhamidipaty upset top seed and top 200 player in first round and 3 more wins over much higher ranked players to make it to the final where she lost in straights sets against an in-form Slovenian Dalia Jaukupovic. Still a great run by Shrivalli which will take her to new career high ranking of around 440. Slowly making her way up.
In doubles, the pair of Shrivalli and Vaidehi Chaudhari won the title beating 4th seeded pair in the final. This is the third title together for the pair.
These are the singles results for our players in this tournament-
[R1] Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,486) d. (1) Irina Maria Bara (ROU,175) 63 60
[R1] Vaidehi Chaudhari (IND,516) l. Viktoria Morvayova (SVK,507) 63 26 46
[R1] (Q) Akanksha Dileep Nitture (IND,1316) l. (7) Polina Iatcenko (RUS,301) 06 36
[R1] Sahaja YAMALAPALLI (IND,326) d. Zeel Desai (IND,561) 63 61
[R1] Rutuja Bhosale (IND,330) l. (4) Mananchaya Sawangkaew (THA,239) 26 06
[R1] (Q) Vaishnavi Adkar (IND,833) l. Thasaporn Naklo (THA,413) 63 67(3) 57
[R1] (WC) Pehal Kharadkar (IND,NR) l. Yasmine Mansouri (FRA,522) 26 06
[R1] (WC) Riya Bhatia (IND,934) l. (6) Sohyun Park (KOR,298) 36 26
[R2] Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,486) d. Viktoria Morvayova (SVK,507) 61 26 62
[R2] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,225) d. (Q) Ekaterina Yashina (RUS,591) 63 62
[R2] Sahaja YAMALAPALLI (IND,326) l. (4) Mananchaya Sawangkaew (THA,239) 16 46
[QF] Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,486) d. (5) Justina Mikulskyte (LTU,249) 60 60
[QF] (3) Ankita Raina (IND,225) l. Polina Iatcenko (RUS,301) 36 67(4)
[SF] Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,486) d. Polina Iatcenko (RUS,301) 63 64
[F] Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (IND,486) l. (2) Dallia Jakupovic (SLO,213) 36 26