Anning Challenger | Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Saketh Myneni qualifies for Doubles quarter-finals
The Indian men’s doubles pair of Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Saketh Myneni has qualified for the quarter-finals at the ongoing Anning Challenger tennis tournament in China. Meanwhile, the other Indian pair of Ramkumar Ramanathan and Vishnu Vardhan lost their first round match to exit the event.
The Indian pair of Gunneswaran and Myneni was up against Spain’s Enrique Lopez Perez and Switzerland’s Luca Margaroli in straight sets of 7-6, 6-4 to make it to the top eight of the competition. The match started with an even manner and continued in the same way
The second set was dominated by the Indians again and this time they managed to break the European pair’s service in the fifth game to make it 3-2 in their favour. Perez and Margaroli also got chances to break the serve of the Indians but Gunneswaran and Myneni held on to four break points in the next game to make it 4-2. They didn’t look back after that and eventually went to win the ticket to the quarter-final by winning the second set 6-4.
In another match, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Vishnu Vardhan lost their first-round match against Sander Arends and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn by straight sets and bowed out of the tournament being played in China. The Indian pair of
The second-seeded pair of N Sriram Balaji and James Cerretani have also made it to the quarter-final of the same event by beating the Chinese pair of Wu Di and He Yecong in straight sets 6-4, 7-6(4).
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