Mukund performed an explosive all-round sport to beat Felix Gill in the Maha Open Challenger tennis match in Pune on Wednesday.
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Wild card entrant S. Mukund continued to play a sturdy sport as he outclassed qualifier Felix Gill of Britain 6-1, 6-0 in the pre-quarterfinals of the $133,250 Maha Open Challenger tennis match at the Balewadi Stadium on Wednesday.
It was as scientific because it might get, as the 27-year-old Indian fired 9 aces and, extra importantly, conceded solely 5 factors in all in his service video games in the entire match. He returned brilliantly and transformed 5 of seven break factors that he compelled whereas in racing to victory.
For the second match working, Mukund didn’t face a single break-point on his serve.
In the quarterfinals, Mukund will play Aussie third seed Adam Walton who sweated it out in opposition to Tung-Lin Wu of Chinese Taipei in the third set tie-break.
The 457th-ranked Mukund had misplaced to Dalibor Svrcina of the Czech Republic in the quarterfinals in Chennai. The fifth-seeded Svrcina retired whereas trailing 1-4 in the decider in opposition to Enzo Couacaud of France, unable to digest the dip in his sport, today.
Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan, the champions in Chennai and Bengaluru, performed robust at the crunch to beat second seeds Piotr Matuszewski and Matthew Romios in straight units.
Top seeds Arjun Kadhe and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan mixed properly to outsmart Rithvik Bollipalli and Niki Poonacha for the lack of six video games.
The outcomes (pre-quarterfinals):
Singles: Valentin Vacherot (Mon) bt Tristan Schoolkate (Aus) 6-1, 6-2; Enzo Couacaud (Fra) bt Dalibor Svrcina (Cze) 6-4, 5-7, 4-1 (retd.); S Mukund bt Felix Gill (GBR) 6-1, 6-0; Adam Walton (Aus) bt Tung-Lin Wu (Tpe) 6-0, 6-7(5), 7-6(4).
Doubles: Arjun Kadhe & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha 6-3, 6-3; Jakob Schnaitter & Mark Wallner (Ger) bt Ray Ho (Tpe) & Calum Puttergill (Aus) 7-6(4), 6-4; Dan Added (Fra) & Yunseong Chung (Kor) bt Francis Casey Alcantara (Phi) & Kaichi Uchida (Jpn) 6-2, 6-2; Duje Ajdukovic (Cro) & Enrico Dalla Valle (Ita) bt Dalibor Svrcina (Cze) & Dane Sweeny (Aus) 7-5, 6-3; Saketh Myneni & Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Piotr Matuszewski (Pol) & Matthew Romios (Aus) 7-6(5), 6-4.
