Deepak Ananthramu knocked out 10th seed Yash Yadav 6-1, 1-6, 10-7 to enter the final qualifying round of the MSLTA $25000 Men’s ITF tennis championships 2023 being organized by Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) and played at their GA Ranade Tennis centre, here, in Mumbai.
In another tight match 16th seed Jagmeet Singh prevailed over wild card qualifier Omar Rehan Sunar 6-4, 7-6(6) to also make it to the final qualifying round.
Fourth seed Rohan Mehra prevailed over compatriot Lohithaksha Bathrinath in straight sets 6-4, 6-3 to move into the second round.
Results - First Qualifying Round: 2-Ryotaro Taguchi (Jpn) bt Siddharth Arya (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Jagmeet Singh (Ind) bt Omar Rehan Sumar (Ind) 6-4, 7-6(6); 4-Rohan Mehra (Ind) bt Lohithaksha Bathrinath (Ind) 6-4, 6-3; 12-Ha Minh Duc Vu (Vie) bt Dharmil Shah (Ind) 6-0, 6-1; 1-Harrison Adams (USA) bt Rishit Dakhane (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; 9-Gabriele Volpi (Ita) bt Tarun Karra (Ind) 6-4, 6-2;
3-Madhwin Kamath (Ind) bt Dhruv Hirpara (Ind) 6-4, 6-2;
Adil Kalyanpur (Ind) bt Anurag Agarwal (Ind) 6-3, 6-2;
Ajay Malik (Ind) bt Nirav Shetty (Ind) 6-3, 6-4; 5-Bharath Nishok Kumaran (Ind) bt Tommaso Schold (Ita) 6-3, 6-1; 6-Kabir Hans (Ind) bt Anuj Maan (Ind) 6-2, 6-0; Deepak Anantharamu (Ind) bt Yash Yadav (Ind) 6-1, 1-6, 10-7; 7-Rishi Reddy (Ind) bt Tushar Madan (Ind) 6-3, 6-1; Aryan Shah (Ind) bt Arjun Mahadevan (Ind) 6-2, 6-4;
8-Shivank Bhatnagar (Ind) bt Maan Kesharwani (Ind) 6-0, 6-4;
Abhishek Bastola (Nep) bt Yash Chaurasia (Ind) 6-3, 6-3.
Russian Donskoy heads seeding list
Evgeny Donskoy who scalped Roger Federer a few years ago leads the ranking list in the singles event
Ramkumar Ramanathan (3) , Sidarth Rawat (6) , S.D Prajwal Dev (7) are the Indians to be seeded in the singles which will see 13 Indian players in the main draw
Sandesh Kurale of Kolhapur, Raghav Jaisinghani , Sartaj Suden and Parth Aggarwal have been awarded the main draw wildcards
Following are the seedings – Men’s singles: 1. Evgeny Donskoy (Rus), 2. Louis Wessels (Ger), 3. Ramkumar Ramanathan (Ind), 4. Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr), 5. Ryuki Matsuda (Jpn), 6. Sidharth Rawat (Ind), 7. S.D. Prajwal Dev (Ind), 8. David Pichler
Men’s doubles: 1. Purav Raja/Ramkumar Ramanathan (Ind), 2. S.D. Prajwal Dev/Nitin Kumar Sinha (Ind), 3. Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta/Vishnu Vardhan (Ind), 4. Taisei Ichikawa/Seita Watanabe (Jpn).
