Prajnesh beaten in second round

Prajnesh collected 32 ATP points, including 12 for qualification, and pocketed € 11,210 from his maiden appearance in an ATP event.

Prajnesh Gunneswaran plays a shot during the singles quarterfinals of the Bengaluru Open ATP Challenger tennis tournament.

Prajnesh Gunneswaran was unable to set up a dream date with Roger Federer on grass, as he was beaten 7-6(4), 6-3 by Giudo Pella of Argentina in the pre-quarterfinals of the € 729,340 Mercedes Cup ATP tennis tournament in Stuttgart on Thursday.

In a keen contest, Pella, regular top-100 player in the professional circuit for the last few years, converted one of five breakpoints and saved two breakpoints that he faced, to meet Federer in the quarterfinals.

Prajnesh collected 32 ATP points, including 12 for qualification, and pocketed € 11,210 from his maiden appearance in an ATP event.

Meanwhile, Ramkumar Ramanathan set up a singles quarterfinals against Marcel Granollers of Spain in the Nottingham Challenger, while Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan made the doubles semifinals with Austin Krajicek of the US.

The results:

€ 729,340 Mercedes Cup ATP, Stuttgart, Germany

Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Guido Pella (Arg) beat Prajnesh Gunneswaran 7-6(4), 6-3.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Philipp Petschner & Tim Puetz (Ger) beat Sriram Balaji & Vishnu Vardhan 6-2, 3-6, 10-7.

 

€ 127,000 Challenger men, Nottingham, UK

Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ramkumar Ramanathan beat Tobias Kamke (Ger) 7-6(1), 6-3.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Austin Krajicek (US) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan beat Adrian Menendez-Maceiras (Esp) & Sergiy Stakhovsky (Ukr) 7-5, 6-4.

 

$100,000 ITF women, Manchester, Britain

Doubles (quarterfinals): Harriet Dart & Katy Dunne (GBR) beat Ingrid Neel (US) & Ankita Raina 6-2, 6-3.

 

$15,000 ITF men, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Singles (quarterfinals): Mohit Mayur beat Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 6-0; Manish Sureshkumar bt Pruchya Isaro (Tha) 6-4, 7-5.

Doubles (semifinals): Diego Matos & Thales Turini (Bra) beat Kunal Anand & Kaza Vinayak Sharma 7-6(4), 7-6(3).

 

$15,000 ITF men, Harare, Zimbabwe

Singles (quarterfinals): Benjamin Lock (Zim) beat Anirudh Chandrasekar 6-4, 6-4; Mehluli Don Ayanda Sibanda (Zim) beat Dhruv Sunish 6-2, 7-5.

Doubles (semifinals): Benjamin Lock & Courtney John Lock (Zim) beat Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi & Niki Poonacha 6-1, 6-3.

 

$25,000 ITF women, Obidos, Portugal

Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Berfu Cengiz (Tur) beat Mahak Jain 6-4, 7-5.

Doubles (semifinals): Giulia Gatto-Monticone & Giorgia Marchetti (Ita) beat Francisca Jorge (Por) & Snehadevi Reddy 6-4, 6-2.