Ramkumar loses to Ofner in Challenger

Ramkumar Ramanathan was beaten 7-5, 6-3 by Sebastian Ofner of Austria in the first round of the Challenger here.

Other results: €127,000 Challenger, Ilkley, UK: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sriram Balaji & Vishnu Vardhan bt Luke Bambridge & Jonny O’Mara (GBR) 4-6, 6-3, [10-7].

$75,000 Challenger, Fergana, Uzbekistan: Doubles (quarterfinals): Ivan Gakhov & Alexander Pavlioutchenkov (Rus) bt Alex Lawson (US) & Arjun Kadhe 7-5, 6-4.

$15,000 ITF, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Pre-quarterfinals: David Perez Sanz (Esp) bt Chandril Sood 6-3, 6-3; Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Ignacio Carou (Arg) 6-1, 3-2 retd.; Manish Sureshkumar bt Giovani Samaha (Lbn) 7-5, 6-1; Abhinav Sanjeev bt Anze Arh (Slo) 6-3, 6-2; Alexander Zhurbin (Rus) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2, 6-1; First round: Chayanon Kaewsuto (Tha) bt Kunal Anand 6-7(4), 6-1, 7-5.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) & David Perez Sanz (Esp) bt Kunal & Kaza Vinayak 7-6(5), 6-2; Ignacio Carou (Arg) & Daniel Mora (Col) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & P.C. Vignesh 4-6, 6-3, [10-5]; Yasitha De Silva & Shamal Dissanayake (Sri) bt Vasisht Cheruku & S.D. Prajwal Dev 6-2, 7-5; Abhinav Sanjeev & V.M. Ranjeet bt Gregg Malawer (USA) & Chaska Rakotondrainibe (Sri) 6-1, 6-1; Anvit Bendre & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Chandril Sood & Lakshit Sood 6-4, 6-3.

$25,000 ITF women, Hong Kong: Pre-quarterfinals: Karman Kaur Thandi bt Ma Yexiin (Chn) 6-4, 6-1.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (Fra) & Karman Kaur bt Justine Sophie Mwan Tung Leong & Man YIng Maggie Ng (Hkg) 6-1, 6-4; Victoria Muntean (Fra) & Y. Pranjala bt Kwan Yau Ng & Ho Ching Wu (Hkg) 7-5, 7-5.

$25,000 ITF women, Fergana, Uzbekistan: Pre-quarterfinals: Guzal Yusupova (Uzb) bt Riya Bhatia 7-6(1), 6-4.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ksenia Palkina (Kgz) & Riya Bhatia bt Sai Samhitha & Natasha Palha 6-3, 6-4; Sofya Lansere & Kamila Rakhimova (Rus) bt Anna Morgina (Rus) & Rutuja Bhosale 6-2, 7-6(4).

$15,000 ITF women, Amarante, Portugal: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Karola Patricia Bajenaru (Rou) & Daniella Silva (Can) bt Cristina Ene (Rou) & Zeel Desai 6-0, 0-6, [11-9].