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Coimbatore
LMW ITF Tennis: Top seeds prevail
September 21, 2016
All the top eight seeds today defeated their rivals in the singles matches in the LMW ITF Men’s International Tennis Tournament, being played here.
Top seed Sumit Nagal defeated Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-2, 7-6, while second seed Prajnesh Gunneswaran beat Aruay Goveas 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Results (with seeds in brackets): N Sriram Balaji [6] bt Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha 6-2, 5-7, 6-3; N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth [5] bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash 6-4, 6-3; Sasi Kumar Mukund [7] bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 7-6 (3), 6-4; Vishnu Vardhan [3] bt Manish Sureshkumar 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (3); Sanam Singh [4] bt Dhruv Sunish 6-3, 6-4; Sidharth Rawat [8] bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 6-2.
Main Draw Doubles-Round 2 results: Anvit Bendre [2] / N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Neeraj Elangovan / Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha 7-6 (5), 6-3; N. Sriram Balaji / Vishnu Vardhan [1] bt Aryan Goveas /Jayesh Pungliya 7-6 (2), 6-4; Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash / Vinayak Sharma Kaza [3] bt Haadin Bava / Shahbaaz Khan 7-6 (6), 6-3; Fahad Mohammed / Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt Tyler Hochwalt (USA) [4] / Sanam Singh (IND) 6-2, 6-3.
