Madrid: Second seed Indian pair of Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Purav Raja beat Wild Cards Ivan Marrero Curbelo (Spain)/Hillel Rousseau (Haiti) 3-6 7-5 10-6 In quarter-finals of the € 44,820 Tenerife Challenger (Spain), here on Thursday.
Prajnesh in Q-FINAL: Scoring 84 per cent points on his first serve and 69 per cent on second serve 184th ranked Indian Prajnesh Gunneswaran defeated qualifier Inaki Montes-De La Torre of Spain 6-1 7-5 in the $ 52,080 Charlottesville Men”s Pro Challenger, USA. With this win, Prajnesh advanced into the singles quarter-final.
Prajnesh served half a dozen aces and committed three double faults. Inaki, ranked 979th, committed four double faults. The Spanish player won 67 per cent points on first serve and 33 per cent on the second serve.
His opponent in the next round is Canadian Brayden Schnur who just managed to pip Japanese Yasutaka Uchiyama with all three sets extended to tie-breaker Schnut won 7-6 (1), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6). Brayden is ranked 243rd?
Arjun Kadhe (India) and Dmitry Popko (Kazakhstan) defeated Gijs Brouwer (Netherlands) and Reese Stalder (USA 2-6, 7-4 (4), 10-7.
Arjun/Dmitry lost the first set 2-6 but bounced back by winning the second set in tie-breaker 7-6 (4) to level the score one-set all.
In the match tie-breaker, the score was 4-4, 5-5, 6-6, 7-7. Arjun/Dmitry took 9-7 lead and went on to win 10-4 and the match.
