Final Up to date: February 13, 2023, 20:31 IST
Indian gamers Sumit Nagal and Sasikumar Mukund entered the singles essential draw of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger tennis event with victories of their respective qualifying spherical matches on Monday.
Nagal posted a fluent 6-1, 6-3 win over Ji Sung Nam in his second-round qualifying whereas Mukund surprised Jason Jung of Taipei, the No.1 seed within the qualifying, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to e-book their spots in the principle draw.
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Digvijaypratap Singh, nonetheless, misplaced 2-6, 6-7 (2) to third-seed James McCabe of Australia to make an exit from the event.
With Nagal and Mukund qualifying for the principle draw, India could have 4 gamers within the fray because the duo be part of the nation’s high stars Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Ramanathan Ramkumar.
The 26-year-old Mukund wore down Jung in a battle that lasted two hours and 24 minutes. He’ll meet 2022 Wimbledon males’s doubles champion Max Purcell within the first spherical of the principle draw.
Nagal faces fourth seed Ryan Peniston of Nice Britain within the first spherical.
Prajnesh and Ramkumar, who obtained wild card entries into the 32-player essential draw, tackle Jay Clarke (Nice Britain) and Dimitar Kuzamanov of their respective opening matches.
There was an enormous upset within the singles essential draw with Seong Chan Hong beating third-seed Sebastian Ofner of Austria 6-4, 6-3 within the first spherical.
In one other first spherical match, top-seeded Chun-hsin Tseng, ranked 132 on this planet, survived a tricky battle towards Nino Serdarusic earlier than prevailing 6-4, 7-6 in a single hour and 58 minutes.
Yasutaka Uchiyama, Nicolas Moreno de Alboran and Arthur Cazaux gained their respective first-round matches to advance to the spherical of 16.
Outcomes:
Fundamental Draw Singles First Spherical:
Chun-hsin Tseng (1) beat Nino Serdarusic 6-4, 7-6; Seong Chan Hong beat Sebastian Ofner 6-4, 6-3; Yasutaka Uchiyama beat Marc Polmans 6-4, 7-6; Nicolas Moreno de Alboran beat Frederico Ferreira Silva 6-3, 6-2; Arthur Cazaux beat Hoang Nam Ly 6-3, 6-2.
Qualifying last spherical:
Sasikumar Mukund beat Jason Jung (1) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Alibek Kachmazov (2) beat Vladyslav Orlov (7) 6-4, 7-6; James McCabe (3) beats Digvijaypratap Singh 6-2, 7-6; Carlos Sanchez Jover (5) beat Benjamin Lock (8) 6-3, 7-5; Petr Nouza beat Andrew Paulson (6) 6-3, 6-4; Sumit Nagal beat Ji Sung Nam 6-1, 6-3.
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