Four Indians make quarters at MSLTA 25K Mens ITF Tennis Tournament
Mumbai, November 23, 2023: Four Indians Ramkumar Ramanathan , Siddarth Vishwakarma, Sidarth Rawat and SD Prajwal entered the singles quarter finals at the MSLTA $25000 Mens ITF tennis championships being organized by Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) and played at their GA Ranade Tennis centre at Mumbai.
In the best match of the day lasting 2 hours and 53 minutes left handed Siddharth Vishwakarma overcame a fighting Ryotaro Taguchi of Japan 6-7(2), 7-6(3), 6-2 to make the last eight , Vishwakarma who was finalist at the same event last year will take on another Indian and sixth seed Sidarth Rawat Who ended the run of Wildcard Raghav Jaisinghani 6-2, 6-2;
Third seeded Ramkumar Ramanathan played solid to stop Dev Javia 6-3, 6-4 while Seventh seeded S D Prajwal Dev was rallied out Local boy Siddhant Banthia 6-3, 6-4 to make the quarterfinal
Top seeded Evgeny Donskoy of Russia stopped the march of young Aryan Shah 6-2, 6-2 , qualifier Harrison Adams Of Russia , fifth seed Ryuki Masuda of Japan and second seeded Louis Wessels of Germany are the other players to make the last eight stage
Results: Singles: Pre-quarterfinal round: Mens:
Ramkumar Ramanathan (Ind) [3] bt Dev Javia (Ind) 6-3, 6-4;
(Q)Harrison Adams (Usa) bt David Pichler (Aut) [8] 6-3, 6-4;
Siddharth Vishwakarma (Ind) bt Ryotaro Taguchi (Jpn) 6-7(2), 7-6(3), 6-2;
Ryuki Matsuda (Jpn) [5] bt Yunseok Jang (Kor)6-3, 6-3;
Evgeny Donskoy [1] bt Aryan Shah (Ind)6-2, 6-1;
Sidharth Rawat (Ind) [6] bt Raghav Jaisinghani (Ind)6-2, 6-2;
S D Prajwal Dev (Ind) [7] bt Siddhant Banthia (Ind)6-3, 6-4;
Louis Wessels (Ger) [2] bt Yuichiro Inui (Jpn)6-4, 7-6(0);
Doubles: Quarterfinal Round:
Harrison Adams (Usa) / Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Karan Singh (Ind) / Parikshit Somani (Ind) 6-3, 6-3;
Ryuki Matsuda (Jpn) / Ryotaro Taguchi (Jpn) bt Siddhant Banthia (Ind) / Manish Sureshkumar (Ind)6-2, 7-6(3);
Purav Raja (Ind) / Ramkumar Ramanathan (Ind) [1] bt David Pichler (Aut) / Louis Wessels (Ger) 7-6(2), 6-4;
S D Prajwal Dev (Ind) [2] / Nitin Kumar Sinha (Ind) bt Kazuma Kawachi (Jpn) / Koki Matsuda (Jpn)6-1, 3-6, 10-4.
