India’s SD Prajwal Dev made his method into the singles pre-quarterfinals of the Cycle Pure Agarbathi ITF Mysuru Open 2023 with a 6-4, 7-5 win over compatriot S Abhinav Sanjeev on the Mysore Tennis Club on Wednesday.
Prajwal was once scheduled to fulfill skilled Indian participant Ramkumar Ramanathan, who was once seeded 5th right here, however the latter needed to withdraw from the match owing to an damage.
Prajwal, the 26-year-old Mysuru lad, will face his countryman Vishnu Vardhan within the Round of 16.
The USD 25,000 tournament is being hosted through the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA).
But the largest surprise of the day got here when unseeded Briton George Loffhagen, a global quantity 182, surprised best seed Nam Hoang Ly of Vietnam 6-3, 6-4.
However, the second one seeded Oliver Crawford of USA and Oriov Vladyslav of Ukraine had higher fortunes at the day, advancing to the pre-quarterfinals.
Crawford had little bother in vanquishing Manish Ganesh, a wildcard entrant from India, with a 6–1, 6–3 victory. But Vladyslav confronted a stiff problem from India’s Niki Poonacha earlier than rising a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 victor.
Eighth seeded Australian Ellis Blake too booked a berth within the pre-quarterfinals after his Indian opponent Siddharth Vishwakarma, a qualifier, withdrew from the fit whilst main 2-0 within the first set.
Fourth seeded Mukund Sasikumar took to courtroom past due within the night towards Serbia’s Boris Butulija. But the skies opened as much as interrupt the fit when the Indian participant was once main 2-1 within the first set. The fit will resume on Thursday.
Results (Singles, R32)
George Loffhagen beat (1) Nam Hoang Ly 6-3, 6-4; (2) Oliver Crawford beat Manish Ganesh 6-1, 6-3; SD Prajwal Dev beat Abhinav Sanjeev 6-4, 7-5; Vishnu Vardhan beat Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan 7-5, 6-4; (3) Orlov Vladyslav beat Niki Poonacha 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; (8) Ellis Blake beat Siddharth Vishwakarma 2-0 (Retired); Nitin Kumar Sinha beat Manish Sureshkumar 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Florent Bax beat Digvijay Pratap Singh 7-5, 6-3; Rishab Agarwal beat Fardeen Kumar 6-1, 6-1; Mukund Sasikumar vs Boris Butulija 2-1 (interrupted)
Results (Doubles, R16)
Dali Blanch / Nicholas Bybel beat A Deepak / Manish Ganesh 6-0, 6-1; Ishaque Eqbal / Karan Singh beat Grigory Lomakin / Woobin Shin 6-2, 6-3.