{"id":2044,"date":"2018-11-19T18:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T13:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kpitchallenger.com\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2021-10-23T13:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T07:59:42","slug":"kuhn-scalps-seventh-seed-martin-to-make-round-two-of-kpit-mslta-atp-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/kuhn-scalps-seventh-seed-martin-to-make-round-two-of-kpit-mslta-atp-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuhn scalps seventh seed Martin to make round two of KPIT -MSLTA ATP Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2046 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kpitchallenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Elias-YMER-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Elias-YMER-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Elias-YMER.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Pune, November 19: \u00a0Spanish player Nicola Kuhn created the first upset ousting seventh seeded Andrej Martin of Slovakia to enter the second round of the main draw at \u00a0the KPIT MSLTA ATP Challenger organized by MSLTA and PMDTA\u00a0 and played at the Mhalunge-Balewadi Tennis Complex here\u00a0 today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">In the opening main draw match 18 year old Spanish ranked 281 in ATP ranking who entered the event as an alternate \u00a0\u00a0took just over an hour to upset 191 ranked and seventh seeded Slovakian Martin \u00a06-2,6-3 to make it to the second round of the main draw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Indian wildcard players in action Aryan Goveas and Manish Sureshkumar showed brilliance in flashes which was not enough for them as they were shown the door out , Canadian <span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">Brayden Schnur ranked 189 \u00a0blew out local wildcard Aryan Goveas \u00a0<\/span>6-3, 6-4 in a match that saw 18 aces in total \u00a0by both players.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\">Third seeded Swedish Elias Ymer who is ranked 132 currently took exactly One hour to\u00a0 outhit second wildcard Manish Sureshkumar 6-4, 6-1 in the opening round.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2047 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kpitchallenger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Brayden-SCHNUR-300x294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Brayden-SCHNUR-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Brayden-SCHNUR-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Brayden-SCHNUR.jpg 785w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Local star Arjun Kadhe partnering Saketh. Myneni \u00a0became the first pair to reach the doubles quarterfinals as they accounted for national champions and wildcard pair of \u00a0\u00a0Parikshit Somani and \u00a0\u00a0Dakshineshwar Suresh \u00a06-1, 6-1<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">In the final round qualifying played today Francesco <span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">Vilardo of Italy , Ben Patael of Israel , and Germans Lucas \u00a0Gerch and S<\/span>ebastian Fanselow \u00a0won their matches to make it to the main draw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Following are the results: Final Qualifying Round:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Francesco <span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">Vilardo(ITA)\u00a0<\/span>bt Danylo Kalenichenko(UKR)6-3, 5-7, 7-5;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\"><span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">Ben Patael (ISR) bt [8] <\/span>Viktor<span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"> Durasovic(NOR)\u00a0<\/span>4-6, 6-3, 6-4; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Lucas Gerch (GER) bt [5] Benjamin Hassan(GER)6-4, 6-0;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">[6] Sebastian Fanselow (GER) bt Mick Lescure (FRA)6-4, 5-7, 6-2;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Main Draw(First Round):<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\"><span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">Brayden Schnur(CAN) bt [WC] Aryan Goveas(IND)\u00a0<\/span>6-3, 6-4;<br \/>\n<span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\">[3] Elias Ymer(SWE)\u00a0<\/span>bt [WC] Manish Sureshkumar (IND)6-4, 6-1;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\"><span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\">Daniel Masur (GER) bt Jelle Sels(NED)6-4, 6-4;\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"text-align: start;\" \/><span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"text-align: start;\">\u00a0[Alt] Nicola Kuhn(ESP) bt [7] Andrej Martin(SVK)6-2, 6-3;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><b><span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><b><span style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Doubles: First round <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;\">Arjun Kadhe (IND) \/ Saketh. Myneni (IND) bt \u00a0[WC] Parikshit Somani (IND) \/ Dakshineshwar Suresh (IND) 6-1,6-1.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune, November 19: \u00a0Spanish player Nicola Kuhn created the first upset ousting seventh seeded Andrej Martin of Slovakia to enter the second round of the main draw at \u00a0the KPIT MSLTA ATP Challenger organized by MSLTA and PMDTA\u00a0 and played at the Mhalunge-Balewadi Tennis Complex here\u00a0 today. In the opening main draw match 18 year old Spanish ranked 281 in ATP ranking who entered the event as an alternate \u00a0\u00a0took just over an hour to upset 191 ranked and seventh seeded Slovakian Martin \u00a06-2,6-3 to make it to the second round of the main draw. Indian wildcard players in action Aryan Goveas and Manish Sureshkumar showed brilliance in flashes which was not enough for them as they were shown the door out , Canadian Brayden Schnur ranked 189 \u00a0blew out local wildcard Aryan Goveas \u00a06-3, 6-4 in a match that saw 18 aces in total \u00a0by both players. Third seeded Swedish Elias Ymer who is ranked 132 currently took exactly One hour to\u00a0 outhit second wildcard Manish Sureshkumar 6-4, 6-1 in the opening round. Local star Arjun Kadhe partnering Saketh. Myneni \u00a0became the first pair to reach the doubles quarterfinals as they accounted for national champions and wildcard pair of&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}