ITF men's tennis: Eqbal upsets second seed Sinha in qualifiers

Pune, March 22: Unseeded Ishaque Eqbal upset second seeded Nitin Kumar Sinha 7-6(6),7-6(4) to enter the final round of qualifying at the USD 15,000 ITF WTT Cup men's tennis championships on Sunday.

In the other first round qualifying matches, ninth seeded Chandril Sood scraped past Yash Chaurasia 2-6, 7-6(4), 15-13 while 11th seeded Suraj R Prabodh was given a tough time by local player Gunjan Jadhav before winning 6-0, 4-6, 10-8.

In other close matches, tenth seeded Faisal Qamar got past local lad Sahil Gaware 7-6(8), 6-4 while thirteenth seeded Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan registered a 6-0 ,6-3 win over Dmitrii Baskov of Moldova 6-0, 6-3.Results

First qualifying round (men's)

Anirudha Chandrasekar(Ind) [1] bt Kapeesh Khandge (Ind)6-1, 6-1;

Ishaque Eqbal (Ind) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha (Ind) [2] Vs 7-6(5), 7-6(4);

Omni Kumar (Usa) [3] bt Jagmeet Singh (Ind) 6-4, 6-4;

Henry Patten (Gbr) [4] bt Arjun Mahadevan (Ind) 6-1, 6-3;

George Botezan (Rou) [5] bt Anurag Nenwani (Ind 6-2, 6-1;

Rishi Reddy (Ind) [6] bt Boopathy Sakthivel (Ind)6-3, 6-0;

N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (Ind) [7] Bt (WC)Sandesh Kurale (Ind) 6-2, 6-2;

Mutu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar (Ind) [8] Bt (WC)Anargha Ganguly (Ind) 6-0, 6-4;

Chandril Sood (Ind) [9] bt Yash Chaurasia (Ind) 2-6, 7-6(4), 15-13;

Faisal Qamar (Ind) [10] bt Sahil Gaware (Ind) 7-6(8), 6-4;

Suraj R Prabodh (Ind) [11] bt Gunjan Jadhav (Ind) 6-0, 4-6, 10-8.

Paras Dahiya (Ind) [12] bt (WC)Neeraj Yashpaul (Ind)6-4, 7-5;

Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (Ind) [13] bt Dmitrii Baskov (Mda)6-0, 6-3;

Digvijay Pratap Singh (Ind) [14] bt Tushar Madan (Ind) 6-4, 6-3;

Preston Brown (Usa) [15] bt Vignesh Peranamallur (Ind)6-4, 6-0;

Leonardo Catani (Ita) [16] bt Jonathan Binding (Gbr) 7-6(4), 7-5

[IANS]

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ITF men's tennis: Eqbal upsets second seed Sinha in qualifiers

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