COIMBATORE: Top seed
Sumit Nagal and second seed
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
had to fight hard to get past their rivals in the LMW
ITF Men's International Tennis Tournament
, on Wednesday.
Sumit overcame stiff resistance from
Siddharth Vishwakarma
before prevailing 6-2, 7-6, while second seed Prajneesh came back from a set down to beat beat Aruay Goveas 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Other results (with seeds in brackets): N Sriram Balaji (6) bt Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha 6-2 5-7 6-3; N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (5) bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash 6-4 6-3; Sasi Kumar Mukund (7) bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 7-6 (3) 6-4; Vishnu Vardhan (3) bt Manish Sureshkumar 2-6 6-2 7-6 (3); Sanam Singh (4) bt Dhruv Sunish 6-3 6-4; Sidharth Rawat (8) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4 6-2.
Main Draw Doubles Round 2 results: Anvit Bendre
(2)/N Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Neeraj Elangovan/Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha 7-6 (5) 6-3; N Sriram Balaji/Vishnu Vardhan (1) bt Aryan Goveas/Jayesh Pungliya 7-6 (2) 6-4; Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash/Vinayak Sharma Kaza (3) bt Haadin Bava/Shahbaaz Khan 7-6 (6) 6-3; Fahad Mohammed/Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt Tyler Hochwalt (USA) (4)/Sanam Singh 6-2 6-3.