Saketh Myneni reached the third round with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Hiroki Moriya of Japan in the $18,320 Challenger tennis tournament on Wednesday.
Ramkumar Ramanathan, too, progressed with a 6-3, 7-6(6) victory over Nam Ji Sung of Korea. Ramkumar and Brayden Schnur of Canada knocked out second seeds Jonathan Erlich and Sriram Balaji to make it to the quarterfinals.
In the ITF men’s Futures in Cairo, Anirudh Chandrasekar stunned the top seed Savriyan Danilov of Russia 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 in the fist round.
The results:
$108,320 Challenger, Seoul, Korea: Second round: Saketh Myneni bt Hiroki Moriya (Jpn) 6-2, 6-1; Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Nam Ji Sung (Kor) 6-3, 7-6(6).
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Max Purcell & Luke Saville (Aus) bt Evgeny Donskoy (Rus) & Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 6-2; Brayden Schnur (Can) & Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Jonathan Erlich (Isr) & Sriram Balaji 6-4, 7-6(4).
$25,000 ITF men, Santa Margherita Di Pula, Italy: First round: Luca Prevosto (Ita) bt Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF men, Namangan, Uzbekistan: First round: Manish Sureshkumar bt Daniil Glinka (Est) 6-2, 6-0; Sidharth Rawat bt Aryan Goveas 6-2, 6-2; Tim Van Rijthoven (Ned) bt Rishab Agarwal 6-2, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jose Fco. Vidal Azorin (Esp) & Aryan Goveas bt Naoki Takeda (Jpn) & Shahbaaz Khan 6-2, 6-2; Yan Bondarevskiy (Rus) & Ivan Liutarevich (Blr) bt Kento Takeuchi (Jpn) & Rishab Agarwal 4-6, 6-2, [10-8]; Konstantin Kravchuk (Rus)& Edan Leshem (Isr) bt Sidharth Rawat & Manish Sureshkumar 7-5, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF men, Wuhan, China: First round: Sho Shimabukuro (Jpn) bt Karunuday Singh 6-3, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sora Fukuda & Yuki Mochizuki (Jpn) bt Tyler Lu (US) & Karunuday Singh 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Cairo, Egypt: First round: Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Savriyan Danilov (Rus) 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Arnaud Bovy (Bel) bt Muthu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar 6-1, 6-0; Vasil Kirkov (US) bt Tarun Anirudh 6-1, 6-0; Adrian Andrzejczuk (Pol) bt V.M. Ranjeet 6-3, 6-3; Yeongseok Jeong (Kor) bt P.C. Vignesh 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & Vignesh bt Anze Arh (Slo) & Ivan Krivic (Cro) 6-3, 6-3; Valentin Vanta (Rou) & Tarun Anirudh bt Muthu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar & V.M. Ranjeet 6-3, 6-3.
$80,000 ITF women, Gifu, Japan: First round: Kurumi Nara (Jpn) bt Ankita Raina 6-0, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ayaka Okuno (Jpn) & Lin Zhu (Chn) bt Hiroko Kuwata (Jpn) & Ankita Raina 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF women, Namangan, Uzbekistan: First round: Gergana Topalova (Bul) bt Y. Pranjala 6-3, 0-6, 4-3 retd.; Rutuja Bhosale bt Ilona Georgiana Ghioroaie (Rou) 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Alicia Barnett & Samantha Murray (GBR) bt Risa Ushijima (Jpn) & Riya Bhatia 6-1, 6-1; Ilona Georgiana Ghioroaie (Rou) & Sowjanya Bavisetti w.o. Petia Arshinkova & Gergana Topalova (Bul); Eudice Chong (Hkg) & Rutuja Bhosale bt Yuliya Hatouka (Blr) & Ipek Oz (Tur) 5-7, 6-1, [10-6].
$15,000 ITF women, Cairo, Egypt: First round: Sravya Shivani bt Rana Sherif Ahmed (Egy) 0-6, 6-4, 7-5; Saumya Vig bt Ilaria Sposetti (Ita) 6-1, 7-5.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Elena Milovanovic (Srb) & Ilaria Sposetti (Ita) bt Tamara Bizhukova (Rus) & Niditra Rajmohan 6-0, 6-1; Lamis Alhussein Abdel Aziz (Egy) & Sravya Shivani bt Anna Makhorkina & Anastasia Zolotareva (Rus) 6-4, 6-4; Katya Malikova (Ukr) & Saumya Vig bt Farah Khalil & Zeina Shaaban (Egy) 6-1, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ramu Ueda (Jpn) & Jennifer Luikham bt Nicole Khirin (Isr) & Sofia Haydee Nicolini (Arg) 6-2, 6-1.