JOIN USSidarth Rawat knocked out second seed Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan 6-4, 6-4 to enter the quarterfinals of the Mysore Minerals Ltd Men’s ITF $10,000 Mandya Open Singles here on Wednesday.
Fifth seed Mohit Mayur also bowed out, losing 1-6, 1-6 to Ronit Singh Bisht. Bisht was in his elements and made the bulky Mayur look ordinary with some precise and pleasing tennis.
Joining Rawat and Bisht in the quarterfinals were fourth seed Sasi Kumar Mukund, sixth seed Jui Chen Hung of Chinese Taipei, eighth seed Vishnu Vardhan, third seed Karunuday Singh, seventh seed Vinayak Sharma Kaza and No 1 seed France’s Antoine Escoffier.
Results (Prefix denotes seeding, Indians unless stated otherwise): Singles (second round): 4-Sasi Kumar Mukund bt Chandril Sood 6-1, 6-4; Sidarth Rawat bt 2-Ranjeet Virali Murugesan 6-4, 6-4; 6-Jui-Chen Hung (Tpe) bt Bhavesh Gour 6-1, 6-1; 8-Vishnu Vardhan bt Akash Wagh 7-5, 6-4; Ronit Singh bt 5-Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash 6-1, 6-1; 3-Karunuday Singh bt S D Prajwal 6-1, 6-3; 7-Vinayak Sharma Kaza bt Abdullah Shaik 6-2, 6-4; 1-Antoine Escoffier (Fra) bt Suraj R Prabodh 6-2, 6-2.
Doubles (Quarterfinals): Jui-Chen Hung (Tpe)/Sasi Kumar Mukund w/o 1-Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash /Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan; Haadin Bava/Tejas Chaukulkar bt Shotoro Goto/Kazuma Kawachi (Jpn) 6-3, 6-3; Anvit Bendre/Akash Wagh bt Maninder Singh/Siddarth Vishwakarma 6-4, 6-1, Chandril Sood/ Lakshit Sood bt Sahil Gaware/ Kunal Vazirani 6-2, 6-1.