Mumbai, Oct 21 Top seed Dhakshineswar Suresh, young Arnav Paparkar, and Sidharth Rawat were among the Indians to advance to the men’s singles second record at the Mumbai Open — an ITF M25 event — here on Wednesday.
Dhakshineswar recorded a dominant 6-0, 6-0 victory over Kazakhstan’s Grigoriy Lomakin, while Paparkar progressed after leading SD Prajwal Dev 6-3, 1-0, when his opponent conceded.
Rawat defeated Dev Javia 7-6(2), 6-3, while fourth seed Digvijay Pratap Singh got the better of Maan Kesharwani 6-3, 6-4.
Adil Kalyanpur recorded a 6-2, 6-1 win over Aditya Balsekar.
In other singles matches, USA’s sixth seed Samir Banerjee defeated Sweden’s William Rejchtman Vinciguerra 6-4, 6-3.
Thailand’s Thanapet Chanta beat Kabir Hans 6-1, 6-2, and Japan’s Ryuki Matsuda also advanced after defeating Sasikumar Mukund 6-4, 6-3.
In the doubles round of 16, Dhakshineswar and Manish Sureshkumar staged a strong comeback to defeat second seeds Ryuki Matsuda (Japan) and Aziz Ouakaa (Tunisia) 6-7(3), 6-4, 14-12.
Fourth seeds Garrett Johns and Noah Schachter of the USA defeated India’s Shanker Heisnam and Karan Singh 6-2, 6-3.
Top seeds SD Prajwal Dev and Nitin Kumar Sinha advanced with a 6-4, 6-0 victory over Mannan Agarwal and Paritosh Pawar, while India’s Aditya Balsekar and Rohan Mehra defeated Arjun Rathi and Caheer Warik 6-3, 6-3.
(PTI News)
