Dutta, Singh qualify for main round of National Grasscourt

By IANS

Kolkata : Second seed Anshuman Dutta of Assam and third seed Divyanshu Singh of Delhi qualified for the main draw of the men’s singles of the Indian Oil Servo National Grasscourt Tennis Championship here Sunday.


Support TwoCircles

In the final qualifying round at the South Club, Dutta defeated Karnataka’s Jagadeeshan Kumar 6-3,6-2 while Singh beat Gujarat’s Bhishma Desai 6-1,6-4.

Results of qualifying matches played Sunday:

Men’s singles (1st qualifying round): Abhijeet Tiwari (1)(Cg)(36) beat Neishit Vakil (Mah)(144) 6-0,6-0; Tariq Jacob (15)(TN)(72) beat Ajay Kumar Singh (WB) 6-7(5-7), 6-3,6-2; Raghvendra Yadav (Asm) beat Naseer Babu (AP) 6-2,6-2;Ankit Patel (10)(Cg)(61) beat Sachin Shetty (Kar) 6-3,6-3; Sriram Balaji (6)(TN)(56) beat Parthasarathy Bharat Srinivasan (TN)(90) 6-3,6-2; Harshvardhan Thirani (16)(WB)(74) beat Himanshu Mali (Mah) 6-3,6-4; Sunil Goswami (IAF) beat Henry Praveen Kalathoti (7)(AP)(56) 7-6(7-4),6-4; Siddharth Kaushik (TN) beat Rohin Santiago (Cg)(144) 6-2,6-1; Dhruv Kumar (11)(WB)(61) beat Santosh Kumar Mallick (Ori) 6-2,6-1.

Men’s singles (2nd qualifying round): Abhijeet Tiwari (1)(Cg)(36) beat Kamlesh Shukla (UP) 6-2,6-4; Deepinder Bains (Chd) beat Tariq Jacob (15)(TN)(72) 6-4,6-7(3-7),6-2; Anshuman Dutta (2)(Asm)(45) beat Prashant Sawant (Mah)(123) 6-0,6-0; Jagadeeshan Kumar (14)(Kar)(67) beat Preetam Roy Moras (Kar)(106) 2-6,6-2,6-4; Divyanshu Singh (3)(Dli)(48) beat Snehasish Mukherjee (WB) 6-1,6-3; Bhishma Desai (12)(Guj)(67) beat Naveen Sai (TN) 6-3,6-3; Kaushik Das (4)(Asm)(51) beat Amrit Mukherjee (WB) 6-2,6-1; Ankit Patel (10)(Cg)(61) beat Raghvendra Yadav (Asm) 7-5,6-2; Siddhartha Verma (WB) beat Jitendra Mehlda (5)(Dli)(54) 6-3,5-4(Retd.); A.S. Suresh Krishna (13)(AP)(67) beat Navneeth Kannan Baskaran (TN) 6-2,6-2; Sriram Balaji (6)(TN)(56) beat Jitin Bishnoi (Har)(144) 6-4,6-1; Pulkit Mishra (Dli) beat Harshvardhan Thirani (16)(WB)(74) 7-6(7-2),7-6(7-4); Sunil Goswami (IAF) beat Ketan Dhumal (Mah)(144) 3-6,6-2,6-4; Vinod Kumar Sewa (WB)(90) beat Siddharth Kaushik (TN) 6-0,7-5; Rahil Makharia (8)(AP)(56) beat Santosh Balakrishna (Kar) 6-0,6-2; Dhruv Kumar (11)(WB)(61) beat M. Mahendra Varman (TN)(90) 7-6(7-4),6-3.

Men’s singles (final qualifying round): Anshuman Dutta (2)(Asm)(45) beat Jagadeeshan Kumar (14)(Kar)(67) 6-3,6-2; Divyanshu Singh (3)(Dli)(48) beat Bhishma Desai (12)(Guj)(67) 6-1,6-4.

SUPPORT TWOCIRCLES HELP SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND NON-PROFIT MEDIA. DONATE HERE