France’s Clement Larriere struggled a bit before overcoming third seed Yurii Dzhavakian of Ukraine 7-6(8), 6-3 in the men’s pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 LMW-ITF Futures at the Perks Tennis Centre here on Wednesday.
The Frenchman had a bright start. He served and volleyed well and came up with some crisp returns and was serving for the set at 5-4 (40-15). It was here that the experience of Dzhavakian came into play.
He cashed in on Larriere’s errors at the net to make it 5-5 and then held serve to go up 6-5. Larriere saved two set points while holding serve, taking it to the tie-breaker.
It was a tough tie-break, but Larriere came up with some good shots at the right moment to clinch the set.
In the second set, Larriere broke Dzhavakian in the fourth game and kept the momentum going to book a last-eight berth.
In another contest, fifth seed Cameron Silverman (USA) bounced back after losing the first set to oust India’s Vinayak Sharma 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.
The results: Pre-quarterfinals: Cameron Silverman (USA) bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; Aryan Goveas bt Faisal Qamar 6-7(2), 6-1, 6-4; Arjun Kadhe bt Mohit Mayur 6-2, 6-2; Clement Larriere (Fra) bt Yurii Dzhavakian (Ukr) 7-6(8), 6-3; Sasi Kumar Mukund bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-3, 7-5; Colin van Beem (Ned) bt Tejas Chaukulkar 7-5, 3-6, 6-4; Jui-Chen Hung (Tpe) bt Manish Suresh Kumar 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Cing-Yang Meng (Tpe) bt Yu Hsiang Chiu (Tpe) 7-5, 6-2.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Mohit Mayur & Vinayak Sharma bt Fahad Mohammed & Rishabdev Raman 6-3, 6-2; Arjun Kadhe & Sasi Kumar Mukund bt Yurii Dzhavakian (Ukr) & Colin van Beem (Ned) 2-6, 7-6(5) [10-7]; Anirudh Chandrasekhar & Vignesh Peranamallur bt Dhakshineswar Suresh & Kunal Vazirani 4-6, 7-6(5), [10-7]; Chandril Sood & Lakshit Sood bt Nitin Kumar Sinha & Haadin Bava 7-6(1), 4-6, [11-9].
