PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, May 8: Players sailed through to the Quarter Finals of the Men’s Singles event at the ongoing Tata Steel AITA Men’s National Ranking Tennis Tournament (1 Lac Prize Money) 2024, being held at the JRD TATA Sports Complex.
In the early half of the day, top-seeded V M Ranjeet of Tamil Nadu got the better of Rishiraj Shekhawat by a straight 6-4,6-3.
Second-seeded Ritabrata Sarkar of Bengal did not have an easy job at the pre quarter-final match yesterday against Mandeep Reddy Kudumala of Karnataka as the former won by a straight yet close 7-6 (7), 6-2.
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Third-seeded Abhinansu Borthakur of Bengal, the winner of the Beldih Club AITA Men’s 1 lac held in November 2023, proved to be too good for younger Balabhadra Behera of Odisha as Borthakur won by a comfortable 6-2,6-2. Fourth seed from Tamil Nadu, Mukil Ramanan also dropped 4 games en route to the quarter-finals as he won against Bengal’s Arib Afzal by 6-1,6-3.
Unseeded Sajal Kesarwani continued with his winning run as he surpassed V Dheeraj Reddy of Telangana by 3-6,5-3 (conc). Reddy had a fall during the match and was forced to concede with a knee injury at 5-3 in the second set.
The matches on the third day today began at 7.30 am and all the matches will be played at the JRD Tata Sports Complex.
