Easy win for Murugesan in ITF meet
May 28th, 2012 - 7:40 pm ICT by IANSMandya (Karnataka), May 28 (IANS) One-sided encounters marked the opening day of the Prem Sugars ITF Mandya Open tennis tournament here Monday when only three single ties were played.
Second seed Ranjeet Virali Murugesan prevailed over Vinod Gowda 6-4, 6-0. Bangalore lad Vinod kept pace with his fancied opponent in the first set, but faded away in the second.
The other two singles matches also saw straight-set victories in which fourth seeded Saket Myneni beat Abhijeet Tiwari 6-4. 6-3 and Sidharth Rawat defeated Saurabh Patil 6-1, 6-0.
Earlier, P.C. Jaffer, Mandya deputy commissioner and chairman of organising committee, inaugurated the event.
The results (Indians unless mentioned):
Singles: Sidharth Rawat bt Saurabh Patil 6-1, 6-0; 2-Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan bt Vinod Gowda 6-4, 6-0; 4-Saketh Myneni bt Abhijeet Tiwari 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles: N Sriram Balaji/Arun Prakash Rajagopalan bt Bharatram Balajee/Bharath Srinivasan Parthasarathy 6-1, 6-3; Scott Puodziunas (AUS)/Gavin Van Peperzeel (AUS) bt Arnav Mohanty (USA)/Arsav Mohanty (USA) 6-0, 6-1; Sebastein Boltz (FRA)/Francesco Vilardo (ITA) bt Krishik Divakar/Sagar Manjanna 6-3, 6-2; Kunal Anand/Ajai Selvaraj bt Zach Itzstein (AUS)/Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND) 7-5, 1-6, 10-7; Vijayant Malik/Vivek Shokeen bt Neeraj Elangovan/Fariz Mohammed 6-1, 6-2; Ronak Manuja/Abhijeet Tiwari bt Yogesh Phogat/Sidharth Rawat 6-2, 6-3; Saketh Myneni/Bowen Ouyang(CHN) bt Vinod Gowda/Venkat Iyer 6-1, 6-0; Elvin Antony/Saurabh Patil bt Arvind Vishnu Bestha/Vignesh Veerabadran 6-4, 7-6(3).
- Malik leads way into last 8 in ITF meet - May 30, 2012
- Myneni packs off Murugesan in ITF meet - Jun 05, 2012
- Easy win for Murugesan in ITF Futures tennis - Nov 07, 2011
- Close call for Vijay Sundar - Jul 24, 2012
- Rawat eliminates Rastogi in ITF tourney - Jun 06, 2012
- Selvaraj knocks out Jeong at ITF meet - Jul 31, 2012
- Thai surprise for Vilardo in ITF meet - Jun 11, 2012
- Good day for Sudanwa at ITF tourney - Jul 23, 2012
- Sharma puts out Vijayaraghavan in ITF event - Jul 30, 2012
- Malik leads way into last eight of ITF tennis - May 02, 2012
- Jeevan survives close match in Bangalore ITF event - Jun 12, 2012
- Ranjith leads way into last 8 of tennis meet - Jul 25, 2012
- Smooth sailing for seeds in Bangalore ITF - Jun 13, 2012
- Myneni, Malik in title round of ITF meet - Jun 01, 2012
- Myneni packs off Murugesan in ITF Futures tennis - Nov 09, 2011
Tags: ajai, arnav, arun prakash, bharath, divakar, fariz, jaffer, mohammed 6, mohanty, open tennis tournament, organising committee, ouyang, rawat, saket, sidharth, srinivasan parthasarathy, vignesh, vilardo, vinod, yogesh