ITF Dharwad Men’s World Tennis Tour 2023: Madhwin Kamath stuns qualifiers' top-seed Vishnu Vardhan to reach main draw

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Dharwad, October 17: Gujarat's Madhwin Kamath stunned qualifiers' top-seed Vishnu Vardhan to advance to the main draw in the ITF Dharwad Men's World Tennis Tour 2023 at the Dharwad District Lawn Tennis Association courts in Dharwad on Tuesday (October 17).

Madhwin staged a superb comeback win against former Indian Davis Cupper and Asian Games medalist Vishnu Vardhan 5-7, 6-3, 10-5 in the final qualifying round match that was halted on Monday (October 16).

After bad light and mild rain had stopped the match between Madhwin and Vishnu with the scores tied at 4-4 in the first set on Monday (October 16), Vishnu, capitalising on an error-prone Madhwin won the first set 7-5 when the match resumed on Tuesday (October 17).

However, the 21-year-old from Gujarat staged a superb comeback winning the second set with breaks in the 4th and 6th games and took the match into the decider.

Vishnu faltered with his serve and returns alike and conceded the advantage after leading 4-2 and finally succumbed to the youngster, who will face wild card entrant Manish Ganesh in the opening round of the main draw.

Karnataka's Suraj Prabodh also scored an upset win 14th seed Yash Yadav in straight sets 6-4, 6-1 to reach the main draw in the M25 Dharwad tennis tournament. Prabodh also will face a wild card entrant in Raghav Jaisinghani on Wednesday (October 18).

The main draw of the US $25,000 tournament also began on Tuesday (October 17) when only two singles matches were played on the opening day of the main rounds.

Third seed Digvijay Pratap Singh overcame a fighting Siddhanth Bhatia 6-2, 7-6 (7) while Nitin Kumar Sinha sent wild card entrant Rishi Reddy home with a facile 6-2, 6-2 victory.

In the doubles matches, the Indian pair of Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta and Manish Sureshkumar upset second seeds Bogdan Bobrov and Nick Chappell of the USA 6-3, 3-6, 10-5. A few matches were postponed due to bad light.

Earlier, former India cricket captain, Mohammed Azharuddin, and Minister for Labour and District-in-charge, Santosh Lad jointly inaugurated the tournament. Azharuddin and the minister engaged in a thrilling display of tennis skills, playing a few exhilarating rallies.

ITF Dharwad Men's World Tennis Tour 2023 Results on October 17, 2023

(Note: All players Indians Except for the ones mentioned in brackets with their nationality, while the Seedings of respective players in qualifiers and main draw are mentioned in the Pre-Fix of the names)

Men's Singles Round of 32 Results

3-Digvijay Pratap Singh beat Siddhant Banthia 6-2, 7-6 (7); Nitin Kumar Sinha beat WC-Rishi Reddy 6-2, 6-2.

Doubles Round of 16 Results

Manish Ganesh/Suraj R Prabodh beat Deepak Anantharamu/Rashein Samuel 7-6 (3), 6-3; Rishab Agarwal/Florent Bax (FRA) beat Adil Kalyanpur/Ryotaro Matsumura (JPN) 6-4, 5-7, 10-4; Ishaque Eqbal/ Faisal Qamar beat Chirag Duhan/Dev Javia 6-3, 6-7 (4), 10-4;

Jake Bhangdia (USA) /Raghav Jaisinghani beat Tushar Madan/ Jagmeet Singh 6-3, 6-4; 4-Siddhant Banthia /Vishnu Vardhan beat Thijmen Loof (NED)/Stijn Pel (NED) 6-4, 6-1; 3-SD Prajwal Dev/Nitin Kumar Sinha beat Yash Chaurasia/Atharva Sharma 6-1, 6-2;

Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta/ Manish Sureshkumar beat 2-Bogdan Bobrov/Nick Chappell (USA) 6-3, 3-6, 10-5; 1-Purav Raja/Ramkumar Ramanathan Vs. Digvijay Pratap Singh/Karan Singh 6-7 (7) (postponed due to bad light).

Final Qualifying Round Results

11-Madhwin Kamath beat 1-Vishnu Vardhan 5-7, 6-3, 10-5; Suraj R Prabodh beat 14-Yash Yadav 6-4, 6-1; Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam beat Tushar Madan 6-3, 6-3; 5-Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan beat 10-Kabir Hans 4-6, 6-3, 10-6.

Source: Media Release