Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: March 26, 2023, 16:46 IST
Indian tennis gamers Ramkumar Ramanathan and Mukund Sasikumar (Twitter)
Ramkumar Ramanathan and Mukund Sasikumar will India’s challenege on the ITF Mysuru Open 2023
Davis Cupper Ramkumar Ramanathan and India No. 2 Mukund Sasikumar will lead the hosts’ problem in the ITF Mysuru Open 2023, scheduled to start on Monday.
The USD25,000 F6 Futures occasion, being hosted by the Karnataka Lawn Tennis Association, will mark the return of ITF tennis to town after eight years.
Ramkumar had emerged winner the final time the event was held right here in 2015.
The different main Indians in the fray for the week-long event embrace Sidharth Rawat, Digvijay Pratap Singh, Manish Sureshkumar, Niki Poonacha and Karan Singh.
Russian participant Evgeny Donskoy, who made headlines by defeating Swiss ace Roger Federer on the Dubai Tennis Championships in 2017, would be the star attraction of the event.
The 32-year-old, as soon as ranked No. 65 in the world, additionally has wins in opposition to star Russian participant Daniil Medvedev and Canadian large server Milos Raonic earlier than they broke into the top-10.
The event will even see worldwide gamers like Vietnam’s Ly Hoang Nam, ranked No. 245, and USA’s Oliver Crawford vying for the highest purse.
Local boy SD Prajwal Dev will even be eyeing an ITF title after his good runs in latest occasions.
Two Mysuru gamers — Manish Ganesh and R Suraj Prabodh -, Bengaluru’s Rishi Reddy and Gujarat’s Madhwin Kamath have been handed wildcard entries to the singles primary draw.
The singles qualifiers will probably be performed on March 26 and 27, whereas the primary draw will start on March 28.
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