Bad day for fancied players at ITF Seniors event

Press Trust of India  |  Chennai 

Seeded players fell like nine pins at the PC Open 2018, an ITF Seniors tournament, at the here with four fancied names including the top seed tumbling out in the 35-Plus singles event today.

In the 45+ event, the second, third and sixth-seeds were sent packing.

Results (Indians unless otherwise stated): 35+ Mens Singles: C Nagarajan bt Muthukumar Subramanian [3] 6-2, 6-1; Royson Kwan (Singapore) [2] bt Surendra Allam 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-4; Vinod Chandhrashekar [6] 6-0, 6-1; Palani Vale bt [7] 7-6(2), 2-6, 6-4.

bt 7-6(4), 6-2; Krishna Kumar bt [5] 6-1, 6-1; Kannan Manickam bt Deepak Marwaha 3-6, 6-1, 6-3; A Johnsonraj w/o Salman Firdousel Jayakumar Krishnapillai bt 6-1, 6-1.

Kannan Sethu bt Prakash Aswani 6-1, 6-0; Vijayakumar Rajasingh bt Vetri Vel Desiganandham 6-0, 6-0; bt Dilip Mohanty [1] 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Gurusamy Venkatesh bt 6-2, 6-0; 6-1, 6-2; Vinodkumar Ramakrishnan bt Amrose Pradeep 6-1, 6-4; Paramartha Lingam Pillai Arunachalam [4] bt 6-2, 6-3.

45+ Mens Singles: Tikam Singh Panwar [1] bt Karamjeet Singh Parmar 7-5, 6-4; Vignesh Kailasam bt Hatinder Panwa R [4] 6-4, 6-0; [2] 6-2, 6-2; [6] bt Sudhakar Reddy Dandala (IND) 6-1, 6-1.

Cader Rameez Samad bt [3] 6-0, 6-4; D Joseph bt G P Balaji 6-4, 6-2.

55+ Mens Singles: [5] bt Govind Krishna Kumar 6-3, 6-1; Murthati Suresh [3] bt 6-0, 6-0; Dilip Singh Nongmaithem [4] bt S Raghavan 6-1, 6-0; Rajagopalan Krishnamurthy bt Nondove Poonacha Palanganda [8] 4-6, 3-0 (Retired).

[6] bt Kalyanraman Srinivasan 6-1, 6-1; Nagaraj Revanasiddaiah [2] bt Umashankar Krishnaswamy 6-1, 6-1; Puneet Kumar Gupta [1] bt Madhusudhana Byreddy 6-0, 6-2.

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First Published: Tue, June 26 2018. 19:45 IST