$15,000 Singapore/ $25,000 Thailand Men's ITF May/June 2019

[Dinesh]

Some of our players are playing in this 3-week Singapore ITF series.

Week 1:

QRound 1
Apuroop PATLOLLA REDDY (IND) [1] BYE
Yeswanth LOGANATHAN (IND) 6-0 6-1 Matthew JOHNSTONE (SGP)
Atharva SHARMA (IND) 6-2 6-2 Tin TINMYOWAI (MYA)
Nikit REDDY (USA) 7-6(1) 7-5 Vidit VAGHELA (IND) [11]
Digvijay Pratap SINGH (IND) [10] 6-0 6-0 Glei DVORANI (ALB)
Rafael E. GROVAS (PUR) [9] 6-4 6-1 Chinmay BAKSHI (IND)

QRound 2
Apuroop PATLOLLA REDDY (IND) [1] 7-6(7) 6-2 Chattarin WAREESRI (THA)
Benard Bruno NKOMBA (AUS) [2] 6-2 6-1 Yeswanth LOGANATHAN (IND)
Atharva SHARMA (IND) 3-6 6-3 [13-11] Jose Joaquin MIRANDA CISNEROS (ESP) [3]
Nikit REDDY (USA) 6-1 6-0 Kai En Matthew LIM (SGP)
Digvijay Pratap SINGH (IND) [10] 5-7 6-3 [10-2] Danielle ABADIA (PHI) [6]

Main Draw Round 1
Siddhant BHATIA (JR) vs [Q] Digvijay Pratap SINGH (IND, IR 2822)
[Q] Atharva SHARMA (IND, UNR) vs [Q] Rafael E. GROVAS (PUR, IR 2483)
Jatin DAHIYA (IND, IR 948) vs [3] Takuto NIKI (JPN,651)
[Q] Apuroop PATLOLLA REDDY (IND,IR 1648) vs Kelsey STEVENSON (CAN,IR 559)
[2] Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,582) vs [WC] Shaheed ALAM (SGP,UNR)

[Dinesh]

Good to see Siddhant Bhatia mixing in some pro tennis while on break from his Wake Forest College tennis duties. Our former top-ranked junior registered 23 wins out of 31 singles matches (most of them at #5, #6 except for one at #2) during the 2019 Spring term.

Hopefully, he is able to win a couple of rounds here.

[sameerph]

Only Manish is thru to the QF here.

R1'
Siddhant BANTHIA (IND) 6-7(5) 6-2 6-1 Digvijay Pratap SINGH (IND)
Atharva SHARMA (IND) 6-3 7-5 Rafael E. GROVAS (PUR)
Kelsey STEVENSON (CAN) 6-1 6-0 Apuroop PATLOLLA REDDY (IND)
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [2] 6-4 6-1 Shaheed ALAM (SGP)

R2
Alec ADAMSON (USA) [8] 6-3 6-0 Siddhant BANTHIA (IND)
Maksim TIKHOMIROV (USA) [7] 6-2 6-1 Atharva SHARMA (IND)
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [2] 6-1 6-2 Hao Yuan NG (SGP)

Expected more from Siddhant Banthia. Hope he picks up his game from next week.

[QF] (2) Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,582,ITF -188) vs. (5) Ryota TANUMA (JPN,ITF-228)

[suresh]

It is great to see Manish get a few matches under his belt. He has had a difficult 2019 losing several R1 matches.

[sameerph]

Updating results for $25K in Thailand too in this thread -

At $25K Mens futures, Thailand

[R1] Karunuday SINGH (IND,ITF 506) l. (8) Yu Hsiou HSU (TPE,625,ITF-189) 26 46
[R1] (3) Sidharth RAWAT (IND,510) d. Jirat NAVASIRISOMBOON (THA,ITF-869)
[R1] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,ITF-1778) d. (7) Pol WATTANAKUL (THA,593) 67(4) 75 76(4)
[R1] Adil KALYANPUR (IND,ITF-638) l. (2) Shuichi SEKIGUCHI (JPN,423) 67(4) 46

[R2] (3) Sidharth RAWAT (IND,510) d. Kasidit SAMREJ (THA,NR) 46 61 63
[R2] Rishab AGARWAL (IND,ITF-1778) d. Chanchai SOOKTON-ENG (THA,ITF-1308) 36 64 64

Nice couple of wins by Rishab after a long time. He is probably getting back into his groove after a long injury lay off.

Next,

[QF] (3) Sidharth RAWAT (IND,510) vs. Rishab AGARWAL (IND,ITF-1778)

[jayakris]

Good to see the two Indians in the QF. We are assured of an SF spot now.

[sameerph]

Manish lost in 3 close sets in Singapore and Sid Rawat won in an all Indian QF in Thailand.

At $15K Singopore

[QF] (2) Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,582,ITF-188) l. (5) Ryota TANUMA (JPN,ITF-228) 46 64 36

At $25K Mens futures, Thailand

[QF] (3) Sidharth RAWAT (IND,510) d. Rishab AGARWAL (IND,ITF-1778) 57 62 64

Next,

[SF] (3) Sidharth RAWAT (IND,510) vs. (8) Yu Hsiou HSU (TPE,625,ITF-189)

[sameerph]

Siddharth Rawat makes it to the final in Thailand.

At $25K Mens futures, Thailand

[SF] (3) Sidharth RAWAT (IND,510) d. (8) Yu Hsiou HSU (TPE,625,ITF-189) 64 62

Nice run by Siddharth to make a 25K final I think for the first time in his career.

Next,

[F] (3) Sidharth RAWAT (IND,510) vs. Rio NOGUCHI (JPN,566)

[jayakris]

This is good stuff from Siddharth. Go Sid.

[sameerph]

And Siddharth wins the title.

At $25K Mens futures, Thailand

[F] (3) Sidharth RAWAT (IND,510) d. Rio NOGUCHI (JPN,566) 75 60

First ITF title for Sid Rawat after long years of struggle. He deserves his own thread after this.

[jayakris]

Congrats, Sid!!! For the perseverance itself, you deserve this. Great job!

[PKBasu]

Great job winning a $25K Futures title. He has indeed travelled all over in search of points, and this is just reward for his efforts. Having just turned 26, he needs to make a leap of another 150 slots in the rankings soon, so that he can start playing Challengers more regularly.

[sameerph]

This week's results in Singapore so far.

At $15K ITF Men Singapore

R1
Abhinav Sanjeev SHANMUGAM (IND) 6-4 6-1 Congsup CONGCAR (THA)
Ryota TANUMA (JPN) [6] 6-2 4-6 6-1 Siddhant BANTHIA (IND)
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [3] 6-4 6-2 Kelsey STEVENSON (CAN)
Kunal ANAND (IND) 6-0 6-3 Pol WATTANAKUL (THA) [4]
Rimpei KAWAKAMI (JPN) 6-1 6-3 Adil KALYANPUR (IND)

R2
Ryota TANUMA (JPN) [6] 6-3 3-6 6-2 Abhinav Sanjeev SHANMUGAM (IND)
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [3] 6-1 6-0 Shamirul Shahril MOHD ADAM DAS (MAS)
Kunal ANAND (IND) 7-6(3) 6-4 Cameron GREEN (AUS)

So, Manish and Kunal are thru to the QF. But, bit disappointing our best teenage players, Adil Kalyanpur and Siddhanth Banthia could not win a round at the lowest level of futures.

Next,

[QF] (3) Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,582,ITF -188) vs.Jonathan GRAY (GBR,ITF-345)

[QF] Kunal ANAND (IND,ITF-784) vs. (8) Alec ADAMSON (USA,ITF-413)

[sameerph]

Both lost in the QF.

At $15K ITF Men Singapore

[QF] (3) Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,582,ITF -188) vs.Jonathan GRAY (GBR,ITF-345) 36 16

[QF] Kunal ANAND (IND,ITF-784) l. (8) Alec ADAMSON (USA,ITF-413) 36 57

Manish is clearly not playing at his ranking level and his ranking will start dropping soon unless he picks up his game.

[sameerph]

This week's results in Singapore-

R1
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [1] 6-3 6-1 Jatin DAHIYA (IND)
Jesse DELANEY (AUS) 6-0 6-2 Atharva SHARMA (IND)
Alec ADAMSON (USA) [5] 6-1 6-3 Kunal ANAND (IND)
Aidan MCHUGH (GBR) [3] 7-5 6-1 Siddhant BANTHIA (IND)
Thanapet CHANTA (THA) 6-3 6-3 Jagmeet SINGH (IND)
Shahin KHALEDAN (IRI) [8] 6-4 6-4 Gokul SURESH (IND)
Kelsey STEVENSON (CAN) [6] 6-1 3-6 6-3 Vidit VAGHELA (IND)
Abhinav Sanjeev SHANMUGAM (IND) 6-4 6-4 Aaron ADDISON (AUS)

R2
Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND) [1] 6-1 6-1 Cameron GREEN (AUS)
Kazuki NISHIWAKI (JPN) [7] 7-6(4) 6-2 Abhinav Sanjeev SHANMUGAM (IND)

So, like in first 2 weeks Manish is thru to the QF.

[QF] (2) Manish SURESHKUMAR (IND,588,ITF-176) vs. Alec ADAMSON (USA,ITF-411)