ITF Dharwad Men’s World Tennis Tour 2023: Top seed Vishnu Vardhan among fancied players to advance to qualifying second round

Dharwad, October 16: Former Indian Davis Cupper and Olympian Vishnu Vardhan was among the fancied players to advance into the second round of the qualifiers in the ongoing ITF Dharwad Men's World Tennis Tour 2023.

The top seed Vishnu Vardhan began his campaign by brushing aside the challenge of Parth Aggarwal in the US $ 25,000 event that began at the Dharwad District Lawn Tennis Association courts on Sunday (October 15).

Vishnu Vardhan of India goes for a backhand during the first round of the qualifiers (Image Courtesy: Deepthi Indukuri, KSLTA)

The Asian Games medallist, who emerged victorious 6-3, 6-2, will next face compatriot 11th seed Madhwin Kamath, who beat Australia's Matthew Woerndle 7-6(2), 6-1, in the second round of the qualifying round.

Suraj Prabodh brought cheers to the home crowd after securing an easy 6-2, 6-3 over sixth seed Atharva Sharma and advanced to the final round of qualifying.

Local lad Amar Dhariyannavar who had been given a wild card put up a bit of resistance in the first set before going down tamely 2-6, 0-6 to Ha Minh Duc Vu of Vietnam.

In another match, Deepak Anantharamu who has been included in the Karnataka state tennis team for the 37th National Games staged a late fight back but in vain losing 0-6, 4-6 to third seed Faisal Qamar.

Intermittent rains delayed the proceedings forcing seven of the matches to be shifted to Monday (October 16). The final round of qualifying will also be held on Monday (October 16). Here is a look at the results from first round of qualifiers:

ITF Dharwad Men's World Tennis Tour 2023 Qualifying Round-1 Results

(Note: All Indians except for the players mentioned in brackets, while Seedings are added in the pre-fix of the respective players)

1-Vishnu Vardhan beat Parth Aggarwal 6-3, 6-2
3-Faisal Qamar beat Deepak Anantharamu 6-0, 6-4
12-Ha Minh Duc Vu (Vietnam) beat Amar Dhariyannavar 6-2, 6-0
5-Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan beat Yash Chaurasia 6-1, 6-2
2-Luke Sorensen (Australia) beat Arjun Mahadevan 7-6 (4), 6-3
4-Jack Karlsson Wistrand (Sweden) beat Dheeraj Kodancha Srinivasan 6-2, 6-3
9-Enrico Giacomini (Italy) beat Jake Bhangdia (USA) 6-1, 6-3
11-Madhwin Kamath beat Matthew Woerndle (Australia) 7-6 (2), 6-1
Suraj R Prabodh beat 6-Atharva Sharma 6-2, 6-3