{"id":2491,"date":"2019-12-01T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T10:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kpitsports.com\/challengers\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T10:43:56","slug":"sumit-nagal-prajnesh-gunneswaran-ramkumar-ramanathan-to-play-in-kpit-mslta-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/sumit-nagal-prajnesh-gunneswaran-ramkumar-ramanathan-to-play-in-kpit-mslta-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumit Nagal, Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Ramkumar Ramanathan to play in KPIT-MSLTA Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sumit Nagal is one of the big names which will play in the tournament. (File Photo)\u00a0\u00a0 – \u00a0GETTY IMAGES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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India\u2019s top singles players —\u00a0Sumit Nagal,\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>Prajnesh Gunneswaran,\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>Ramkumar Ramanathan\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>— will feature in the KPIT-MSLTA Challenger, which begins in Pune from November 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the new 48-player draw format, the cut-off this year is 550, which makes it very strong Challenger at this level,\u201d Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) secretary Sunder Iyer said.<\/p>\n

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Of the 48 players, a total of 41 players will be given entry, while a couple of players will come through qualifiers and five will get entry through wild cards.<\/p>\n

The organisers confirmed that the qualifying round will have only two matches, which will be played on November 11 alongside the main draw. The final will be played on November 17.<\/p>\n

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(From left to right) MSLTA secretary Sunder Iyer, KPIT\u2019s CEO and Managing Director Kishor Patil Kishor Patil, and India\u2019s tennis ace Purav Raja.\u00a0\u00a0 – \u00a0SHAYAN ACHARYA<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The singles winner will have a prize money of $7,200 and will also earn 80 ATP points, while the runner\u2019s up will get $4,240 and bag 48 ATP points.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the last Challenger event before the Australian Open. So, players who are on the fringe of the main draw at the Australian Open will try to hold their spots. For them, this tournament will be important,\u201d KPIT\u2019s CEO and Managing Director Kishor Patil, said.<\/p>\n

India\u2019s tennis ace\u00a0Purav Raja\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>— who was also present at the media conference — hoped that it will be an evenly fought contest between some of the top names.<\/p>\n

Roland Herfel will be the ATP supervisor for the event, while Sheetal Iyer will be the ATP referee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sumit Nagal is one of the big names which will play in the tournament. (File Photo)\u00a0\u00a0 – \u00a0GETTY IMAGES India\u2019s top singles players —\u00a0Sumit Nagal,\u00a0Prajnesh Gunneswaran,\u00a0Ramkumar Ramanathan\u00a0— will feature in the KPIT-MSLTA Challenger, which begins in Pune from November 11. \u201cWith the new 48-player draw format, the cut-off this year is 550, which makes it very strong Challenger at this level,\u201d Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) secretary Sunder Iyer said. Of the 48 players, a total of 41 players will be given entry, while a couple of players will come through qualifiers and five will get entry through wild cards. The organisers confirmed that the qualifying round will have only two matches, which will be played on November 11 alongside the main draw. The final will be played on November 17. (From left to right) MSLTA secretary Sunder Iyer, KPIT\u2019s CEO and Managing Director Kishor Patil Kishor Patil, and India\u2019s tennis ace Purav Raja.\u00a0\u00a0 – \u00a0SHAYAN ACHARYA The singles winner will have a prize money of $7,200 and will also earn 80 ATP points, while the runner\u2019s up will get $4,240 and bag 48 ATP points. \u201cThis is the last Challenger event before the Australian Open. So, players who….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-news","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}