$50K(+H) Bangkok Challenger, Thailand- Jan. 2018

[sameerph]

Siddharth Rawat qualified for the main draw after a hard fight win in the final qualifying round as his opponent retired.

[Q1] (1) Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) bye
[Q2] (1) Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) d. Wei-De Lin (TPE,1415) 46 61 76(6)
[Q3] (1) Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) d. (8) Timur Khabibulin (KAZ,788) 26 76(5) 44 retd.

Main draw-

Singles

[R1] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) vs. Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,487)
[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,428) vs (7) Yusuke Takahashi (JPN,282)

Doubles

[R1] (3) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (IND)/ Christopher Rungkat (INA) vs Ti Chen (TPE)/ Flavio Cipolla (ITA)

I don't know why Vishnu and Bala are not playing here. Bala would have directly made the singles main draw and both would have been seeded in doubles.

[PKBasu]

Decent draw for Sid, not so for Sasi.

[bujilover]

And I don’t know why VSP played last week’s Q and not this one.

[Rajiv]

Sid could not take advantage of an decent draw and went down in straight sets to his Thai opponentn 6-7, 3-6.
Sasi also not looking good and possibly will meet the same fate as Sid as he is 2-5 down in the first set against the 7th seed Japanese who will now serve for the first set

[sameerph]

Yes, both lost in first round.

[R1] (Q) Sidharth Rawat (IND,542) l. Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (THA,487) 67(3) 36
[R1] Sasi Kumar Mukund (IND,428) l. (7) Yusuke Takahashi (JPN,282) 26 75 06

They are still struggling to take the next step to challenger level.