Sidharth, Karan Cruise Into Pre-quarters At ITF Davangere Men's World Tennis
Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong: The promising Sidharth Rawat of India made a confident start to his campaign in the ITF Davangere Men's World Tennis Tour which kicked off at the prestigious Davangere Tennis Association courts here on Tuesday.
Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong: The promising Sidharth Rawat of India made a confident start to his campaign in the ITF Davangere Men's World Tennis Tour which kicked off at the prestigious Davangere Tennis Association courts here on Tuesday.
The fifth seed scored a facile 6-1, 6-4 win over Suraj Prabodh to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the US $ 15,000 event.
On a day on which only two singles matches took place, Karan Singh demonstrated his prowess by triumphing over another local lad, Rishi Reddy with an impressive 6-1, 6-4 scoreline.
Some notable results from the doubles pre-quarterfinal action included a 95-minute battle between the second-seeded pair of Bogdan Bobrov and Nick Chappell of the USA who were made to toil by the all-Indian team of Rishab Agarwal and Nitin Kumar Sinha before prevailing 6-7(4), 6-1, 11-9 while the top-seeded duo of Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramanathan overcame a late fightback by the Indo-Malaysian combination of Dev Javia and Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong 6-3, 7-6(4) to enter the quarterfinals.