{"id":2522,"date":"2018-12-01T18:06:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kpitsports.com\/challengers\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2021-12-01T18:51:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:21:42","slug":"ymer-wins-pune-challenger-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/ymer-wins-pune-challenger-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ymer Wins Pune Challenger Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-38741\" class=\"post-38741 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-atp-challenger-news category-atp-challenger-tour tag-atp-challenger-tour tag-elias-ymer tag-kpit-mslta-atp-challenger tag-prajnesh-gunneswaran tag-pune\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Elias Ymer<\/strong>\u00a0has finished his season by lifting his second ATP Challenger trophy of the season. The 22-year-old from Sweden clinched the singles title of the\u00a0<strong>KPIT MSLTA ATP Challenger\u00a0<\/strong>in Pune.<\/p>\n<p>Ymer, No. 3 seed at the $50,000 ATP Challenger hard-court event, defeated local favourite\u00a0<strong>Prajnesh Gunneswaran<\/strong>\u00a06-2, 7-5 in Saturday\u2019s final at the\u00a0Mhalunge-Balewadi Tennis Complex. The Stockholm resident fired 12 aces, saving all four break points he faced. Ymer broke his opponent\u2019s serve three times to prevail after one hour and 27 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FKPITChallenger%2Fvideos%2F1724037754375322%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By claiming his sixth ATP Challenger career title, his second in 2018 following his triumph in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis-tourtalk.com\/38303\/ymer-defends-mouilleron-le-captif-crown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mouilleron-Le-Captif,<\/a>\u00a0Ymer takes away $7,200 in prize money as well as 80 ATP-Ranking points.<\/p>\n<p>Gunneswaran also enjoyed a successful season. The 29-year-old from Chennai clinched the bronze medal at the Asia Games and showed some remarkable consistency on the ATP Challenger Tour, highlighted by two titles in Anning and Bagalore, which will propel him to a career high World No. 104 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day,\u00a0<strong>N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Ramkumar Ramanathan<\/strong>\u00a0took the doubles title. The all-Indian duo battled past\u00a0<strong>Cheng-Peng Hsieh<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Tsung-Hua Yamng<\/strong>\u00a0of Taipei 7-6(3), 6-7(5), 10-7. The encounter lasted one hour and 49 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\"><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elias Ymer\u00a0has finished his season by lifting his second ATP Challenger trophy of the season. The 22-year-old from Sweden clinched the singles title of the\u00a0KPIT MSLTA ATP Challenger\u00a0in Pune. Ymer, No. 3 seed at the $50,000 ATP Challenger hard-court event, defeated local favourite\u00a0Prajnesh Gunneswaran\u00a06-2, 7-5 in Saturday\u2019s final at the\u00a0Mhalunge-Balewadi Tennis Complex. The Stockholm resident fired 12 aces, saving all four break points he faced. Ymer broke his opponent\u2019s serve three times to prevail after one hour and 27 minutes. By claiming his sixth ATP Challenger career title, his second in 2018 following his triumph in\u00a0Mouilleron-Le-Captif,\u00a0Ymer takes away $7,200 in prize money as well as 80 ATP-Ranking points. Gunneswaran also enjoyed a successful season. The 29-year-old from Chennai clinched the bronze medal at the Asia Games and showed some remarkable consistency on the ATP Challenger Tour, highlighted by two titles in Anning and Bagalore, which will propel him to a career high World No. 104 on Monday. Earlier in the day,\u00a0N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth\u00a0and\u00a0Ramkumar Ramanathan\u00a0took the doubles title. The all-Indian duo battled past\u00a0Cheng-Peng Hsieh\u00a0and\u00a0Tsung-Hua Yamng\u00a0of Taipei 7-6(3), 6-7(5), 10-7. The encounter lasted one hour and 49 minutes. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-newa","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","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=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/challengers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}