ITF Mandya Open: Siddharth Vishwakarma, Manish Ganesh Breeze Into Round of 16

Indians Manish Ganesh and Siddharth Vishwakarma registered easy wins to enter the men’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the ITF Mandya Open on Tuesday.

Ganesh breezed past Neeraj Yashpaul 6-1, 6-1, while Vishwakarma overcame Adil Kalyanpur 6-3, 6-1 to reach the round of 16.

However, local man SD Prajwal Dev, who was recently added to the Indian Davis Cup team to face Pakistan, suffered a disappointment in the men’s doubles round of 16.

Prajwal and his partner Nitin Kumar Sinha, seeded second in the event, were leading 5-4 against the Indo-Koren pair of Woobin Shin and Karan Singh in the first set.

But Sinha had to withdraw from the match after developing stomach cramps.

The eight-seeded Prajwal will meet Korea’s Yunseok Jang in the singles first-round match on Wednesday.

Results Singles (Round of 32):

Siddharth Vishwakarma beat Adil Kalyanpur 6-3, 6-1; Manish Ganesh beat Neeraj Yashpaul 6-1, 6-1.

Doubles (Round of 16):

4-Parikshit Somani/Manish Sureshkumar beat Siddhant Banthia/Giles Hussey (GBR) 6-4, 6-3; Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta/Vishnu Vardhan beat Ishaque Eqbal/Faisal Qamar 6-4, 7-6 (8); Orel Kimhi/Ofek Shimanov (ISR) beat Yash Chaurasia/Jagmeet Singh 6-2, 6-1; Rifqi Fitriadi (INA)/Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong (MAS) beat Preetham Ganesh AS/Chandan Shivaraj 4-6, 6-0, 10-6; Thijmen Loof/Jelle Sels (NED) beat 3-Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE)/Kris Van Wyk (RSA) 6-4, 7-5; Woobin Shin (KOR)/Karan Singh beat 2-SD Prajwal Dev/Nitin Kumar Sinha 4-5 (retd); 1-Grigoriy Lomakin (KAZ)/David Pichler (AUT) beat Manish Ganesh/Rishi Reddy 6-3, 6-2; Yunseok Jang (KOR)/Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) bt Rishab Agarwal/Adil Kalyanpur 7-5, 7-6 (4).