Pune
Qualifier Dominic Palin defeated Sumit Nagal 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the pre-quarterfinals of the PMR Open $130,000 Challenger tennis tournament at the Ballywadi Stadium on Wednesday.
Although the Indian challenge was wiped out in the second round of singles, several Indian players and teams reached the doubles quarterfinals.
Results (Pre-Quarter Finals):
Rio Noguchi (Jpn) bt Nikola Milojevic (Srb) 2-6, 7-5, 6-3; Luca Nardi (ETA) bt Lorenzo Giustino (ETA) 6-7(11), 6-0, 6-4; Dominic Palin (CH) bt Sumit Nagal 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Chun-Hsin Tseng (Tpe) bt Hamad Medjedic (Srb) 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles: Sasi Kumar Mukand & Vishnuvardhan bt Francesco Mistrali & Luca Nardi (ETA) 2-6, 6-3, [10-7]; Boris Battulija (SRB) and Prajnesh Ganeswaran bt Prikshit Somani and Manish Suresh Kumar 6-2, 6-2; Anirudh Chandrasekhar & Vijay Sunder Prashanth bt Din Kelly (Aus) & Vladislav Orlov (Ukr) 6-1, 7-5; Peter Nuza (CH) & Poro Raja bt Harold Mayot (FRA) & Makoto OC (JPN) 6-3, 6-2; Rithok Chowdhury and Nikki Punacha bt Rio Noguchi (JPN) and Colin Sinclair (NMI) 6-4, 6-4; Arjun Kadhe and Maximilian Neuchrist (out) bt Faisal Qamar and Fardeen Qamar 6-3, 6-4.
