Manish Sureshkumar ousted 16th seed Rio Noguchi of Japan to enter the singles pre-quarterfinals of the KPIT-MSLTA Challenger at the MSLTA School of Tennis on Tuesday. The 20-year-old from Chennai, ranked 748 in the world, sent the World No. 408 Noguchi packing 6-3, 7-6(4) in 96 minutes.
The results: Singles: Second round: Jay Clarke (GBR) bt Calvin Hemery (Fra) 6-4, 6-4; Manish Sureshkumar bt Rio Noguchi (Jpn) 6-3,7-6(4); Shuichi Sekiguchi (Jpn) bt Roman Blokhin (Rus) 6-3, 6-0.
First round: Dhruv Sunish bt Sumizawa Daisuke (Jpn) 7-6(3), 6-2; Markos Kalovelonis (Gre) bt N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-2, 6-4; Dalwinde Singh bt Kunal Anand 6-3, 6-4; Ergi Kirkin (Tur) bt David Pichler (Aut) 1-6, 7-5, 6-2; Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Tejas Chaukulkar 7-6(1), 6-7(5), 6-4; Aziz Dougaz (Tun) bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-3, 7-6(3) .