Fenesta Open: Jeevan advances into quarterfinals

jeevanDelhi: Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan kept his title hunt on course with a comprehensive victory over Ajai Selvaraj in the Fenesta National Tennis Championship played here at the DLTA Complex on Wednesday.

The 24 year Chennai player who entered the tournament as a top seed won the second round encounter 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.

He will now take on against fifth seeded Ashwin Vjayaraghavan in the quarterfinals who beat Vinod Sridhar 6-2,6-1.

Meanwhile, it was curtains for two of the top four seeds in the Men’s singles with PC Vignesh and VM Ranjeet withdrawing, owing to injuries at the Fenesta Open National Championship on Wednesday.

With scores locked at one-all after the first two sets, second seed VM Ranjeet was trailing 0-1 in the third when he twisted his ankle and couldn’t continue thereafter, allowing Arjun Khade to advance into the quarter-finals of the men’s singles.

Fourth seed Vignesh had lost the first set 4-6 to Saurabh Singh and later in the set, his health forced him to concede the match.

The results:

Men (pre-quarterfinals): Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Ajai Selvaraj 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; Ashwin Vijayaraghavan bt Vinod Sridhar 6-2, 6-1; Siddharth Rawat bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 7-6(4), 6-1; Vaidik Munshaw bt Saurav Sukul 6-2, 6-2; R. Ramkumar bt Tejas Chaukalkar 6-0, 6-1; Saurabh Singh bt P.C. Vignesh 6-4, 1-1 retd; Mohit Mayur bt Ronak Manuja 6-3, 6-1; Arjun Kadhe bt V.M. Ranjeet 6-3, 4-6, 1-0 retd.

Women (pre-quarterfinals): Rishika Sunkara bt Devanshi Bhimjiyani 6-2, 6-3; Vaniya Dangwal bt Megha Sehrawat 3-0 retd; Natasha Palha bt Damini Sharma 6-2, 6-3; Eetee Maheta bt Sonal Phadke 6-1, 6-2; Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy bt Vineeta Singh 6-0, 6-0; Shweta Rana bt Sai Samhitha 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; Simran Sethi bt Bhuvana Kalva 7-5, 6-3; Prerna Bhambri bt Tarrannum Handa 6-2, 6-2.

By Indian Sports News Network

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