Vishnu sails into semis

Olympian and former Davis Cupper Vishnu Vardhan perhaps produced the best tennis this week yet, when he ousted fourth seed Sasi Kumar Mukund 6-3, 6-1 to storm into the semifinals of the Sobha ITF Mysuru Open here at the Infosys Campus courts on Thursday.

The top three seeds took their appointed places in the last four, third seed Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan having to come back from being a set down to get past the fifth-seeded Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash.

Second seed Karunuday Singh, too, had it easy when he breezed past the last foreigner standing in the draw, Taipe’s Jui-Chen Hung 6-1, 6-3.

Top seed Ramkumar Ramnathan was tested by seventh seed Vinayak Sharma Kaza in the second set after the players had held serve till 6-all.

Results: (Prefix denotes seeding):

Men’s singles (quarterfinals): 3-Ranjeet Virali Murugesan bt 5-Mohit Mayur Jaya­pr­akash 3-6, 6-1, 6-2; 8-Vishnu Vardhan bt 4-Sasi Kumar Mukund 6-3, 6-1; 2-Karunuday Singh bt 6-Jui Chen Hung 6-1, 6-3; 1-Ram­kumar Ramnathan bt 7-Vinayak Sharma Kaza 6-3, 7-6 (4).  Doub­les (semifinals): Bhavesh Gour/ Sidarth Ra­wat bt Sasi Kumar Mukund/ Jui-Chen Hung (Tpe) 6-4, 3-6, 10-7; 2-Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash/ Vina­yak Sharma Kaza bt 4-Chandril Sood/ Lakshit Sood 6-4, 5-7, 10-8.