Sumit Nagal, Prajneesh win in LMW ITF

Top seed Sumit Nagal and second seed Prajnesh Gunneswaran had to fight hard to get past their rivals in the LMW ITF Men's International Tennis Tournament, here today.
Sumit overcame stiff resistance from Siddharth Vishwakarma before prevailing 6-2 7-6, while second seed Prajneesh came back from a set down to beat beat Aruay Goveas 4-6 6-4 6-4.
Other results (with seeds in brackets): N Sriram Balaji (6) bt Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha 6-2 5-7 6-3; N Vijay Sundar Prashanth (5) bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash 6-4 6-3; Sasi Kumar Mukund (7) bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 7-6 (3) 6-4; Vishnu Vardhan (3) bt Manish Sureshkumar 2-6 6-2 7-6 (3); Sanam Singh (4) bt Dhruv Sunish 6-3 6-4; Sidharth Rawat (8) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4 6-2.

Main Draw Doubles Round 2 results: Anvit Bendre (2)/N Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Neeraj Elangovan/Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha 7-6 (5) 6-3; N Sriram Balaji/Vishnu Vardhan (1) bt Aryan Goveas/Jayesh Pungliya 7-6 (2) 6-4; Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash/Vinayak Sharma Kaza (3) bt Haadin Bava/Shahbaaz Khan 7-6 (6) 6-3; Fahad Mohammed/Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt Tyler Hochwalt (USA) (4)/Sanam Singh 6-2 6-3.