Manish stuns Sultanov; Karan overturns Mukund
Manish Sureshkumar played gutsy and clawed back from the sight of defeat to knock out the second seed Khumoyun Sultanov of Uzbekistan 46, 75, 64 in the first round of the $25,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Tuesday.
Manish trailed 24 in the decider, but won the next four games, dropping a mere four points to close out the match.
The 877thranked Manish had 11 aces in the match and converted six of seven break points in beating the 329thranked Uzbek.
In another upset, Karan Singh beat fourth seed S. Mukund 76(4), 61.
Quite charged up to show his firepower, Karan fired nine aces and converted three of four break points.
After failing to serve out the first set in the tenth game, Karan did well to win six points on the trot in the eventual tie break from 14. He broke Mukund’s serve in the fourth and sixth games of the second set to race past him.
The results: Singles (first round): Evgeny Donskoy bt Shivank Bhatnagar 6-2, 6-0; Karan Singh bt S Mukund 7-6(4), 6-1; Manish Sureshkumar bt Khumoyun Sultanov (Uzb) 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Chirag Duhan & Yuichiro Inui
(Jpn) bt Oges Theyjo & Suraj Prabodh 6-4, 6-7(5), [10-2]; Kazuma Kawachi (Jpn) & Woobin Shin (Kor) bt Raghav Jaisinghani & Aditya Balsekar 6-2, 6-0.
Nitin Kumar Sinha & Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Parth Aggarwal & Yunseok Jang (Kor) 6-2, 6-3. Kabir Hans & Faisal Qamar bt Thanapet Chanta (Tha) & Rishi Reddy 7-6(9), 6-3.
Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (Tha) & Bang Shuo Yin (Tpe) bt Udit Kamboj & Maan Kesharwani 6-1, 7-5.