Kunal Anand of India overcame a one-set deficit to beat Gregory Howe of Great Britain 1-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the third and final qualifying round at the Indian Oil Servo ITF men’s Futures tennis championships here. The main draw of the tournament is scheduled to start here on Monday.
The results: Third round: Hyun-Woo Nam (Kor) bt Jatin Dahiya 6-1, 6-2; Weerapat Doakmaiklee (Tha) bt Seong-Gook Oh (Kor) 6-4, 6-1; Ronit Singh Bisht bt Ronak Manuja 6-2, 6-0; Lakshit Sood bt Kumara P. Saradhi Adavelly 7-5, 6-2; Bastien Favier (Fra) bt Jae-Min Seol (Kor) 6-2,6-3; Chandril Sood bt Vignesh Veerabadran 6-3,6-4; Tejas Chaukulkar bt Elwin Antony 5-7, 7-6(1), 3-0 (conceded).
Second round: Hyun-Woo Nam (Kor) bt Jui Mao (Tpe) 6-2, 6-0; Jatin Dahiya bt Senthil Kumar Vijayarajeshwaran 6-2, 6-0; Weerapat Doakmaiklee (Tha) bt Sagar Ahuja 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; Seong-Gook Oh (Kor) bt Saurabh Patil 6-1, 3-6, 6-3; Ronit Singh Bisht bt Rakshay Thakkar 6-4, 7-6(5); Ronak Manuja bt Kuan-I Lee (Tpe) 6-1, 6-3; Kunal Anand bt Bharatram Balajee (Ind) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Gregory Howe (GBR) bt Arvind Vishnu Bestha 6-1, 6-1; Kumara P. Saradhi Adavelly bt Fei Yun Liao (Tpe) 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 (conceded); Lakshit Sood beat Rajat Maheshwari 6-3, 6-4; Jae-Min Seol bt Saurabh Singh 6-2, 6-1; Bastien Favier (Fra) bt Sagar Manjanna 6-4, 6-3; Vignesh Veerabadran bt Maninder Singh 6-0, 6-2; Chandril Sood bt Deepinder Bains 6-3, 6-0; Elwin Antony bt Garvit Batra 6-3, 6-3; Tejas Chaukulkar bt Arpit Sharma 6-1, 6-0. — Sports Reporter