Pungaliya, Banthia advance in ATP Pune Challenger qualifying

Local players Jayesh Pungaliya and Siddanth Banthia made full use of their wildcards to enter the second qualifying round at the MSLTA ATP Challenger here today.
17-year-old Banthia, who missed on the junior season to make his senior debut, outplayed Siddharth Vishwakarma 7-6, 6 -1 while Pungliya, who has been performing consistently at the ITF events got the better of Dhakshineswar Suresh 4-6, 6- 4, 6-3.
Fifth seeded Siddharth Rawat stopped a fighting Dhruv Sunish 6-4, 7-6 (1) while seventh seeded N Vijay Sundar Prashanth rallied past Anvit Bendre 6-4, 6-2.
Chandril and Lakshit Sood, Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan were the other Indians to enter the second round. In the only upset of the day, Timur Khabibulin of Kazakhstan upset sixth seeded Naoki Nakagawa of Japan 2-6, 7-6, 6-4.

Results: First Qualifying Round: Hugo Grenier (4)(FRA) bt Alexey Kedryuk (KAZ) 6-1, 6-1; Sidharth Rawat (5)(IND) bt [ WC] Dhruv Sunish (IND) 6-4, 7-6; N Vijay Sundar Prashanth(7) (IND) bt Anvit Bendre (IND) 6-4, 6-2; Timur Khabibulin (KAZ) bt Naoki Nakagawa (6)(JPN) 2-6, 7-6, 6-4; Alexei Popyrin (8) (AUS) bt Vinayak Sharma Kaza (IND) 6-3, 7-5; Chandril Sood (IND) bt Milan Radojkovic (SRB) 6-1, 7-5; Ranjeet Virali- Murugesan (IND) bt [WC] Armaan Bhatia (IND) 6-0, 6-3; Borna Gojo (CRO) bt Ivan Sabanov (CRO) 6-3, 6-3; [WC] Siddanth Banthia (IND) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma (IND) 7-6, 6-1 [WC] Jayesh Pungliya (IND) bt [WC] Dhakshineswar Suresh (IND) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Lakshit Sood (IND) bt [WC] Prasana Bagade (IND) 6-1, 6-1; Matej Sabanov (CRO) bt Suraj R Prabodh (IND) 7-5, 2-6, 6-4; Shalva Dzhanashia (RUS)- Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (IND) 6-2, 6-4.