Bengaluru Open: Prajnesh advances, top-seed Albot exits
Prajnesh Gunneswaran advanced to the second round of the 2018 Bengaluru Open with a straight sets win over Ivan Nedelko, while qualifier Youssef Hossam defeated top seed Radu Albot.
Published : Nov 13, 2018 21:59 IST
Fourth seed Prajnesh Gunneswaran’s quest to further embellish his career-best season started in earnest with an assured 6-2, 6-2 win over Russian Ivan Nedelko at the $150,000 Bengaluru Open. The World No. 144, won 100 per cent of his first serve and 74 per cent of his second serve points and did not face a single break point. The Russian’s was the superior heft of stroke, with which he often tried to bludgeon his way through. But for such tactics to work in Bengaluru, where the ball tends to bounce high and fly off the racquet, Nedelko needed to be at the top of his game. On Tuesday, he clearly wasn’t and the seven double faults he served didn’t help his cause one bit.
Prajnesh needed two breaks of serve in each set -- in the fourth and eighth games in the first and the sixth and eighth games in the
The results Singles (first round): Zizou Bergs (Ger) bt Kevin Krawietz (Ger) 6-1, 6-2; Saketh Myneni bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-3, 7-6(3); Youssef Hossam (Egy) bt Radu Albot (Mda) 2-6, 6-2, 6-2; Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Ivan Nedelko (Rus) 6-2, 6-2; Sasi Kumar Mukund bt Colin Altamirano (US) 7-6 (6), 6-3; Blaz Kavcic (Slo) bt Filip Peliwo (Can) 6-1, 6-2; Quentin Halys (Fra) bt Suraj Prabodh 6-3, 6-1; Brayden Schnur (Can) bt Max Purcell (Aus) 6-4, 7-6; Sebastian Fanselow (Ger) bt Zsombor Piros (Hun) 7-6 (6), 6-4; Fredrico Ferreira Silva (Por) bt Danilo Petrovic (Srb) 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Doubles: Andrej Martin (Svk) & Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (Chi) bt Kevin Krawietz (Ger) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-3, 3-6, [10-7]; Purav Raja & Antonio Sancic (Cro) bt Romain Arneodo (Mon) & Quentin Halys (Fra) 6-4, 6-7(6), [11-9]; Sriram Balaji & Vishnu Vardhan bt Sumit Nagal & Brayden Schnur (Can) 6-4, 6-3. |