Siddhanth bhatia

Dharwad District Lawn Tennis Association:  Karnataka’s Suraj Prabodh and Gujarat’s Madhwin Kamath scored upset victories. knocking out fancied players to make it to the main draw of the ITF Dharwad Men’s World Tennis Tour 2023 on Tuesday.

While Madhwin staged a superb comeback win against former Indian Davis Cupper and Asian Games medalist Vishnu Vardhan 5-7, 6-3, 10-5, Suraj sidelined 14th seed Yash Yadav in straight sets 6-4, 6-1 at the Dharwad District Lawn Tennis Association courts.

In the only two singles matches played on the opening day of the main draw of the US $ 25,000 event that started on Tuesday, third seed Digvijay Pratap Singh overcame a fighting Siddhanth Bhatia 6-2, 7-6(7) while Nitin Kumar Sinha sent wild card entrant Rishi Reddy home with a facile 6-2, 6-2 victory.