Ramkumar Ramanathan fired 18 aces en route to a 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-4 victory over Jason Jung of Chinese Taipei in the first round of the €127,000 Challenger tennis tournament on Monday.
In the ITF men’s Futures in Harare, Dhruv Sunish knocked out fourth seed Darko Bojanovic 6-2, 6-4 in the first round. In another match, Niki Poonacha stunned seventh seed Siphosothando Montsi of South Africa 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.
The results: €127,000 Challenger tournament, Nottingham, UK: First round: Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Jason Jung (Tpe) 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Colombo, Sri Lanka: First round: Manish Sureshkumar bt Jirat Navasirisomboon (Tha) 6-1, 6-1; Ignacio Carou (Arg) bt Kunal Anand 5-7, 6-3, 6-0; Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-4, 7-5; Chandril Sood bt Darko Jandric (Srb) 6-3, 6-2; Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Calum Puttergill (Aus) & Giovani Samaha (Lbn) bt Vasisht Cheruku & S.D. Prajwal Dev 6-3, 7-5; Mohit Mayur & Manish Sureshkumar bt Tyler Mercier (USA) & Shunsuke Wakita (Jpn) 6-2, 6-2; Naoki Takeda (Jpn) & Gokul Suresh bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam & V.M. Ranjeet 6-4, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF men, Harare, Zimbabwe:First round: Benjamin Lock (Zim) bt Anurag Nenwani 6-2, 6-3; Dhruv Sunish bt Darko Bojanovic (BIH) 6-2, 6-4; Niki Poonacha bt Siphosothando Montsi (RSA) 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Lance-Pierre Du Toit (RSA) & Anurag Nenwani bt Jason Chigazira & Mark Chigazira (Zim) 6-1, 6-1; Anirudh Chandrasekar & P.C. Vignesh bt Jayesh Pungliya & Dhruv Sunish 6-4, 6-1.
$25,000 ITF women, Singapore:
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Alexandra Bozovic & Alicia Smith (Aus) bt Ramu Lleda (Jpn) & Riya Bhatia 7-5, 6-2.
