Home
Chak De India
Tennis
Bengaluru Open 2023: India’s Sasikumar Mukund, Prajnesh Gunneswaran off to winning starts in final qualifying round

Bengaluru Open 2023: India’s Sasikumar Mukund, Prajnesh Gunneswaran off to winning starts in final qualifying round

Bengaluru Open 2023: Indian tennis players Mukund Sasikumar and Prajnesh Gunneswaran made their way into the final qualifying round at the Bengaluru Open 2023 after registering contrasting victories on Sunday. Follow Bengaluru Open 2023 Updates with InsideSport.IN. The Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA) at the KSLTA Stadium in Bengaluru is organising the prestigious ATP Challenger […]

Bengaluru Open 2023: Indian tennis players Mukund Sasikumar and Prajnesh Gunneswaran made their way into the final qualifying round at the Bengaluru Open 2023 after registering contrasting victories on Sunday. Follow Bengaluru Open 2023 Updates with InsideSport.IN.

The Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA) at the KSLTA Stadium in Bengaluru is organising the prestigious ATP Challenger event. The 26-year-old Sasikumar ranked 402 in the world, dominated the World No.

Dubai Tennis Championships: Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka lead Dubai draw; Elena Rybakina faces Bianca Andreescu

Bengaluru Open 2023: India’s Sasikumar Mukund, Prajnesh Gunneswaran off to winning starts in final qualifying round

170 Andrew Paulson during his confident 6-1, 6-4 win. India No. 1 Gunneswaran, on the other hand, faced some tough challenges from Zimbabwean Benjamin Lock in the first set, which went into a tie-breaker but managed to keep things under control to secure a 7-5, 6-4 victory eventually.

Insidesport

Meanwhile, it was heartbreak for Ramkumar Ramanathan, who put up a solid show against the former World No. 78 Yasutaka Uchiyama of Japan before going down fighting 6-3, 5-7, 3-6 in a thrilling three-setter that lasted for more than two hours.
Four other Indians, Sidharth Rawat, Kriish Tyagi, Digvijaypratap Singh and Manish Ganesh, who came as wild cards, also gave it their all but suffered defeats in their respective matches.

The main event of the tournament will kickstart on Monday and the opening day will be inaugurated by R Ashoka, Honourable Minister for Revenue, Government of Karnataka and President, KSLTA in the presence of Eric Lamquet, Director, ATP Challenger Tour, and Priyank Kharge, Member of Legislative Assembly, Government of Karnataka and Senior Vice President, KSLTA.

Top-seed Tseng Chun-Hsin, Australian Marc Polmans and No. 5 seed Luca Nardi among others will begin their challenge in the singles main draw. In contrast, Sasikumar and Gunneswaran will fight in the final qualifying round earlier in the day.

Bengaluru Open 2023: India’s Sasikumar Mukund, Prajnesh Gunneswaran off to winning starts in final qualifying round

Follow InsideSport on GOOGLE NEWS / Follow Bengaluru Open 2023 Updates with InsideSport.IN.

Follow
Share

Editor's Pick

KL Rahul made sacrificial lamb once again! Falls victim to captain Rohit Sharma's opening decision Cricket KL Rahul made sacrificial lamb once again! Falls victim to captain Rohit Sharma's opening decision

Top Stories

Share article
Follow us on social media
Tell us why didn’t you like our article so that we can improve on?
Choose ranking:
ICC Test Ranking
ICC ODI Ranking
ICC T20I Ranking