TENNIS
Pune Open ATP Challenger: Nagal loses in second spherical
Qualifier Dominik Palan beat Sumit Nagal 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 within the pre-quarterfinals of the Pune Open ATP Challenger tennis event on the Balewadi Stadium on Wednesday.
Even although the Indian problem was worn out within the second spherical of singles, quite a few Indian gamers and groups progressed to the doubles quarterfinals.
RESULTS
Singles (pre-quarterfinals)
Rio Noguchi (Jpn) bt Nikola Milojevic (Srb) 2-6, 7-5, 6-3; Luca Nardi (Ita) bt Lorenzo Giustino (Ita) 6-7(11), 6-0, 6-4; Dominik Palan (Cze) bt Sumit Nagal 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Chun-Hsin Tseng (Tpe) bt Hamad Medjedovic (Srb) 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals)
Sasikumar Mukund & Vishnu Vardhan bt Francesco Maestrelli & Luca Nardi (Ita) 2-6, 6-3, [10-7]; Boris Butulija (Srb) & Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Parikshit Somani & Manish Sureshkumar 6-2, 6-2; Anirudh Chandrasekar & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Dayne Kelly (Aus) & Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) 6-1, 7-5; Petr Nouza (Cze) & Purav Raja bt Harold Mayot (Fra) & Makoto Oci (Jpn) 6-3, 6-2; Rithvik Choudhary & Niki Poonacha bt Rio Noguchi (Jpn) & Colin Sinclair (Nmi) 6-4, 6-4; Arjun Kadhe & Maximilian Neuchrist (Aut) bt Faisal Qamar & Fardeen Qamar 6-3, 6-4.
– Team Sportstar
Dubai Open: Ramkumar loses in opening spherical in doubles
Ramkumar Ramanathan in partnership with Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan was crushed 6-4, 3-6, [10-5] by Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen of Belgium within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the ATP500 tennis event in Dubai.
RESULTS
ATP500 Dubai, UAE
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sander Gille & Joran Vliegen (Bel) bt Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pak) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 3-6, [10-5].
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Sravya Shivani bt Anouck Peeters (Ned) 6-2 (retired): Kristina Milenkovic (Sui) bt Tanisha Kashyap 6-3, 3-1 (retired).
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Valeria Koussenkova (Esp) & Marie Villet (Fra) bt Cleanne Pickel (Sui) & Tanisha Kashyap 6-1, 6-4.
– Team Sportstar
SAI, DLTA to organise age group occasions on Women’s Day
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) and the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association (DLTA) will organise a tennis event for ladies and women within the under-12 and 16 age teams to have fun the Women’s Day in New Delhi on March 10.
It can be a one-day occasion and matches may have a easy tremendous tie-break format. Matches are scheduled to be performed from 10 a.m. on the clay courts of the Dhyan Chand National Stadium, India Gate.
Coach Chandra Bhushan would be the event director and Kulwant Singh, the referee.
– Team Sportstar
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com