Tristan Schoolcate on the way to the fighting victory over Valentin Vacherot in Delhi Open Challenger Tennis Tournament on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Kamesh Sroinivasan
Michael Geerts from Belgium scored Indian hopes when S. Mukund stretched at the end of his joke on the road to 6-4, 7-5 victory in the Dafanews $ 100,000 Delhi Open Challenger Tennis Tournament on Wednesday Dlta.
While Mukund sometimes played quality tennis, the Belgian was consistent and managed to get rid of tight situations and get out of chances to become a direct matter.
Indian showed what Breaking Serve was capable of in the tenth game of the second scene when Geerts served for a match. However, it was too late when the Belgian served in the match at the 12th game.
In the next match Australia Tristan Tristan Tristan averted a hard challenge from the towering Valentin Vacherot in Monaco to drag in three sets.
It was the first victory at three meetings of a 23-year-old schoolboy who won a total of nine matches in his two previous matches against Vacherot.
In the doubles, Niki Poonach and Courtney Lock Zimbabwe played an entertaining versatile game and supplied Crisp Volleys to Crunch to move to the quarterfinals, with a 10-6 victory in Super Tie-Break against the Czech couple Marek Gengel and Dalibor Svrcina.
Ramkumar Ramanathan and Karan Singh had their chances against Shintara Mochizuki and Kaito uesugi, but several mistakes saw that the duo lost 7-10 in Super Tie-Break.
Results (a quarter):
Singles: Michael Geerts (Bel) BT S. Mukund 6-4, 7-5; Kyrian Jacquet (FRA) BT Clarke (GBR) 7-5, 6-3; Andre Ilagan (USA) BT Timofei Skat (caries) 6-2, 6-3; TRISTAN SCHOOLKATE (AUS) BT Valentin Vacherot (Mon) 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-4
Doubles: Enzo Couacaud (FRA) and Kelsey Stevenson (Can) BT Party & Sidharth Rawat 6-1, 6-3; Masamichi Imamura & Rio Noguchi (JPN) BT Enrico Dalla Valle (ITA) and Oledksandr Ovcharenko (UKR) 7-6 (5), 6-2; Hynek Barton & Vit Kopriva (CZE) BT Corentin Denolly & Sascha Wayenburg (FRA) 7-5, 7-5; Kris van Wyk (RSA) and Eric Vanshelboim (UKR) BT Prajwal Dev & Sai Cardeek Reddy 6-4, 6-3; Kimmer Coppejans and Michael Geerts (Bel) Bt August Holmgren and Elmer Moller (DN) 6-2, 6-2; Jay Clarke (GBR) and Johannes Ingildsen (DN) Bt Siddhant Banthia & Parikshit Somani 6-3, 6-2; Shintaro Mochizuki & Kaito uesugi (JPN) BT Ramkumar Ramanathan and Karan Singh 3-6, 6-1, (10-7); Niki Poonach & Courtney Lock (Zim) Bt Marek Ginger & Dalibor Svrcina (CZE) 2-6, 7-6 (5), (10-6).
Published – February 12, 2025 06:19 Ist
