Former champion Vishnu Vardhan battled for 3 hours and 25 minutes and transformed his fifth match level to cease the resurgent Adil Kalyanpur 7-6(3), 3-6, 7-5 within the males’s first spherical of the Fenesta National tennis championship on the DLTA Complex on Tuesday.
In a high-quality contest, Vishnu asserted his sturdy sport and admirable health to stroll away with the victory.
Another former champion, the wiry left-hander Siddharth Vishwakarma, performed a pleasant all-court sport, whipping his serves and strokes with a relish to silence the ability sport of Rishi Reddy.
Top seed S.D. Prajwal Dev withdrew following a groin muscle pull throughout coaching, and lucky-loser Sai Karteek Reddy capitalised on the possibility to get previous qualifier Faisal Qamar in straight units.
The outcomes (first spherical):
Men: Sai Karteek Reddy bt Faisal Qamar 7-5, 7-5; Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt Ajay Malik 6-0, 6-2; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Rishi Reddy 6-3, 6-2; Suraj Prabodh bt Neeraj Yashpaul 6-3, 6-0; V.M. Ranjeet bt Yash Chaurasia 6-0, 6-3; Sheikh Md. Iftikhar bt Dheeraj Srinivasan 6-3, 7-5; Vishnu Vardhan bt Adil Kalyanpur 7-6(3), 3-6, 7-5; Kabir Hans bt Raghav Jaisinghani 6-4, 6-4.
Women: Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Saily Thakkar 6-2, 6-0; Sai Janvi bt Ruma Gaikaiwari 6-1, 2-6, 6-1; Kashish Bhatia bt Pooja Ingale 6-3, 6-4; Avishka Gupta bt Ishwari Matere 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; Riya Sachdeva bt Shruti Gupta 6-2, 6-3; Sai Samhitha bt Kavya Khirwar 6-1, 1-6, 6-3; Vanshika Choudhary bt HImaanshika Singh 3-6, 7-6(4), 3-0 (retired).
Source: www.thehindu.com