Last Updated: February 20, 2023, 21:26 IST
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Gunneswaran breezed previous Carlos Sanchez Jover of Spain 6-4, 6-3 whereas Sasikumar went all the way down to Jason Jung in straight units 5-7, 4-6
Top-seed Chun-Hsin Tseng of Taipei and Australias Marc Polmans superior to the Round of 16 of the Bengaluru Open 2023 with complete wins on Monday.
There was some excellent news for native tennis followers as India’s Pranjesh Gunneswaran certified for the primary draw by profitable his ultimate qualifying spherical match. But the main focus was on Tseng, a World No 131, who didn’t have to interrupt a lot sweat in keeping off Frederico Silva of Portugal in straight units 6-4, 6-4.
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Tseng bagged the primary set 6-4 with the assistance of a single break. The Taipei participant was in full management of the proceedings, sending down 3 aces and profitable a humongous 93 per cent of first serves.
The second set began in a quite weird method with each Tseng and Silva buying and selling breaks within the first 5 video games. Both the gamers dedicated a slew of unforced errors in that passage of the sport.
Tseng made the decisive break within the sixth sport of the second set after saving 6 breakpoints, which gave him a 4-2 lead. Tseng swelled the result in 5-3 with one other straightforward maintain within the eighth sport.
In the opposite Round of 32 match of the day, world quantity 284 Marc Polmans of Australia defeated sixth-seeded Francesco Maestrelli of Italy in a lop-sided match 6-1, 6-2 to enter the Round of 16.
Meanwhile, fifth seed Luca Nardi of Italy additionally superior to the Round of 16 with a facile 6-4, 6-4 win over Miljan Zekic of Serbia.
Prajnesh qualifies, Sasikumar ousted
India had a combined day within the second spherical of Qualifying matches on Monday (February 20). Prajnesh Gunneswaran breezed previous Carlos Sanchez Jover of Spain 6-4, 6-3. M Sasikumar went all the way down to Jason Jung in straight units 5-7, 4-6.
Other outcomes (Qualifying):
Giovanni Perricard bt Yasutaka Uchiyama 7-5, 6-1; James McCabe bt Hiroki Moriya 6-1, 6-3; Nikola Milojevic bt Yunseong Chung 7-6 (2), 6-4; Albek Kachmazov bt Colin Sinclair 7-5, 6-2.
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