{"id":2266,"date":"2018-11-27T17:34:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T12:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kpitchallenger.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2021-11-08T19:33:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:03:01","slug":"kpit-mslta-challenger-from-nov-11-gunneswarannagal-lead-strong-indian-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/kpit-mslta-challenger-from-nov-11-gunneswarannagal-lead-strong-indian-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"ITF World Tennis Tour \u2013 Round-Up CW12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Crawford triumphs\u00a0in India. Yu Hsiou Hsu dominates in Egypt. Lucas Catarina wins another title on hard court. Milan Zekic captures back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n<p>MUNICH, April 1, 2021 (by Dietmar Kaspar)<\/p>\n<p><strong>M15 Pune IND \u2013 Oliver Crawford triumphs\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oliver Crawford<\/strong>\u00a0of the United States stopped the winning run of his country mate\u00a0<strong>Zane Khan<\/strong>\u00a0to win the the title of the $15000\u00a0<strong>KPIT \u2013MSLTA ITF WTT Cup Men\u2019s tennis championships<\/strong>\u00a0being organized by MSLTA in association with Deccan Gymkhana.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 4 seed from Spartanburg rallied down Indian No. 6 seed\u00a0<strong>Manish Sureshkumar<\/strong>\u00a0in the stage of the last four in two sets.<\/p>\n<p>No. 8 seeded Khan, who clinched the trophies of the last two tournaments on Indian soil this month, booked the spot in the all-US-American final by defeating Swedish No. 5 seed\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Mridha<\/strong>\u00a0in straight sets.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one-year-old Crawford fired eight aces and won 79 per cent of his first-service points in a one-sided championship match to secure a 6-3, 6-0 win after 68 minutes. The former juniors World No. 9 lifted his third singles trophy on the ITF World Tennis Tour.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CM-MFGtD-eb\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=13&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tennis-tourtalk.com&amp;rp=%2F71567%2Fitf-world-tennis-tour-round-up-cw12#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A2175.800000190735%2C%22ls%22%3A1959%2C%22le%22%3A2141%7D\" height=\"841\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>It\u2019s been a great week and I had tough matches on the way to the final. It feels great to win the event, which was conducted in tough times. I feel for Zane as he looked very tired but he had three good weeks in India. It\u2019s my first time in India and everything about organisation of this event has been perfect. I would like to come back again<\/em>\u201d, Crawford said.<\/p>\n<p>The singles winner Crawford earned $2,160 in prize money as well as 10 ATP Ranking points while the runner-up\u00a0 received $1,272.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Crawford triumphs\u00a0in India. Yu Hsiou Hsu dominates in Egypt. Lucas Catarina wins another title on hard court. Milan Zekic captures back-to-back titles. MUNICH, April 1, 2021 (by Dietmar Kaspar) M15 Pune IND \u2013 Oliver Crawford triumphs\u00a0 Oliver Crawford\u00a0of the United States stopped the winning run of his country mate\u00a0Zane Khan\u00a0to win the the title of the $15000\u00a0KPIT \u2013MSLTA ITF WTT Cup Men\u2019s tennis championships\u00a0being organized by MSLTA in association with Deccan Gymkhana. The No. 4 seed from Spartanburg rallied down Indian No. 6 seed\u00a0Manish Sureshkumar\u00a0in the stage of the last four in two sets. No. 8 seeded Khan, who clinched the trophies of the last two tournaments on Indian soil this month, booked the spot in the all-US-American final by defeating Swedish No. 5 seed\u00a0Jonathan Mridha\u00a0in straight sets.\u00a0 Twenty-one-year-old Crawford fired eight aces and won 79 per cent of his first-service points in a one-sided championship match to secure a 6-3, 6-0 win after 68 minutes. The former juniors World No. 9 lifted his third singles trophy on the ITF World Tennis Tour. \u201cIt\u2019s been a great week and I had tough matches on the way to the final. It feels great to win the event, which was conducted&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpittennis.com\/wtt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}