Karan Singh, Ishaque Eqbal advance at Hyderabad Open ITF

Karan Singh defeated Udit Kamboj in a three-set battle at the Hyderabad Open ITF men’s tennis tournament. Rifqi Fitriadi overcame Amit Vales, while Ishaque Eqbal and Sidharth Rawat also advanced. Indian doubles pairs impressed in the pre-quarterfinals

Hyderabad: Karan Singh defeated Udit Kamboj 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-4 in the singles first round of the Hyderabad Open ITF men’s tennis tournament at Lake View Tennis Academy here on Wednesday.

In another first-round match, Rifqi Fitriadi of Indonesia scored a hard-fought 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3 win against Amit Vales of Israel.

Results (all players from India unless mentioned):

Singles – 1st round:

Md Rifqi Fitriadi (Ina) bt Amit Vales (Isr) 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3

Thanapet Chanta (Tha) bt Ivan Iutkin 7-6(5), 6-2

Timofei Derepasko bt Mitsuki Leong (Mas) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4

Jeffrey Von Der Schulenburg (Sui) bt Felix Balshaw (Fra) 6-2, 7-6(6)

Ishaque Eqbal bt Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) 6-4, 7-6(4)

Karan Singh bt Udit Kamboj 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-4

James Van Herzeele (Tha) bt Sairama Sriharshit Allam (GBR) 6-1, 6-0

Sidharth Rawat bt Vishnu Vardhan 7-6(4), 6-4

Manish Suresh Kumar bt Madhwin Kamath 6-3, 6-3

Pawit Sornlaksup (Tha) bt Srivaant Mummadi 6-0, 6-1

Rohan Mehra bt Hitesh Chouhan 7-6(1), 4-6, 6-3

Seyong Han (Kor) bt Lohit Aksha 6-4, 6-3

Dominik Palan (Cze) bt Duckhee Lee (Kor) 6-1, 6-2

Aziz Ouakaa (Tun) bt Kabir Hans 2-6, 6-3, 3-0 (retired)

Keshav Chopra (USA) bt Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) 6-2, 6-4

Max Houkes bt Dev Javia 6-4, 6-1

Doubles – Pre-quarterfinals:

Aryan Lakshmanan & Manish Suresh Kumar bt Lee Duckhee (Kor) & Aziz Ouakaa (Tun) 7-6(3), 6-4

Sai Karteek Reddy & Vishnu Vardhan bt M Rifqi Fitriadi & Anthony Susanto (Ina) 6-3, 7-5

Kabir Hans & James Van Herzeele (Tha) bt Shashank Theertha & Vijay Shankar 7-6(2), 6-3

Dev Javia & Atharva Sharma bt Thanapet Chanta & Pawit Sornlaksup (Tha) 6-4, 6-3

Madhwin Kamath & Rohan Mehra bt Aditya Vardhan & Tarun Karra 6-4, 6-2

Ishaque Eqbal & Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) bt G Vedant & Rahul Lokesh 6-2, 6-0

Mitsuki Leong (Mas) & Timofei Derepasko bt Parth Agarwal & B Aditya 6-4, 6-1

Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) & Jeffrey Von Der Schulenburg (Sui) bt Lohit Aksha & Suden 6-1, 6-2