Prajnesh, Sriram and Vishnu reach quarters

Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan broke little sweat in reaching the quarterfinals of the USD 15,000 ITF Futures tennis tournament being held at the KSLTA in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

Published : Mar 15, 2017 20:56 IST , Bengaluru

Prajnesh Gunneswaran trounced Hong Kong's Hong Kit Wong 6-2, 6-1.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran trounced Hong Kong's Hong Kit Wong 6-2, 6-1.
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Prajnesh Gunneswaran trounced Hong Kong's Hong Kit Wong 6-2, 6-1.

Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan broke little sweat in reaching the quarterfinals of the $ 15,000 ITF Futures tennis tournament being held at the KSLTA here on Wednesday. Prajnesh trounced Hong Kong's Hong Kit Wong 6-2, 6-1 while Vishnu Vardhan recorded an equally impressive 6-2, 6-1 win over Dakshineshwar Suresh. Sriram Balaji meanwhile had to overcome a stiff second set challenge by Siddarth Vishwakarma before coming through 6-2, 7-5.

The results (Second round)

Singles: Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Mohit Mayur 6-2, 6-3; G. Prajnesh bt Hong Kit Wong (HK) 6-2, 6-1; Vishnu Vardhan bt Dakshineshwar Suresh 6-2, 6-1; Sami Reinwein (Ger) bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; Hadin Vava bt Rishab Agarwal 6-4, 6-4; Siddarth Rawat bt Suraj Prabodh 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3); Karunaday Singh bt Mukund Sasi Kumar 7-6 (4), 6-3; Sriram Balaji bt Siddarth Vishwakarma 6-2, 7-5.

Doubles: Chandril Sood & Lakshit Sood bt Vasisht Cheruku & S.D. Prajwal Dev 3-6, 6-3, [10-7]; Vishnu Vardhan & Sriram Balaji bt Jui Chen Hung (Tpe) & Hong Kit Wong (HK) 7-5, 6-1; Jeson Patrombon (Phi) & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Tejas Chaukulkar & N. Kaliyanda Poonacha 6-7 (2), 6-1, 10-4; C. Alexander & R. Sami (Ger) bt C. Amorudh & P. Vignesh 7-5, 6-3.

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