TENNIS

Indian pair Anirudh Chandrasekar and Vijay Prashanth in quarterfinals of ATP Tour occasion in US

The Indian pair of Anirudh Chandrasekar and Vijay Prashanth superior to the boys’s doubles quarterfinals on the US males’s clay courtroom championship ATP tour occasion after a straight-set win right here.

The Indian duo beat American wild card entrants Michael Mmoh and Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4 in a spherical of 16 match that lasted one hour and 19 minutes on Monday.

Chandrasekar and Prashanth face fourth-seeded Australian duo of M Purcell and J Thompson within the quarterfinals. Prashanth is presently ranked 101 in doubles whereas Chandrasekar is at 113.

Just a few different Indians are additionally within the fray within the doubles competitors.

Arjun Kadhe and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan play in opposition to the pair of Marcus Daniell of New Zealand and Luis Martinez of Venezuela within the pre-quarterfinals whereas N Balaji and his German companion Andre Begemann face high seeds Americans Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek in one other spherical of 16 match.

-PTI