para manalo Maha Open 2025: India's Nedunchezhiyan-Prashanth Qualify For Quarter-finals In Doubles Event

India's Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and his partner Vijay Sundar Prashanth with the Hangzhou Open men's doubles trophy. Photo: X/AITA_Tennis India's Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and his partner Vijay Sundar Prashanth with the Hangzhou Open men's doubles trophy. Photo: X/AITA_Tennis

Top seeded Indian pair of Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Sundar Prashanth beat the Danish duo of August Holmgren and Elmer Moller in straight sets to enter the doubles quarterfinals of the Maha Open ATP Challenger 100 men's tennis tournament on Wednesday. (More Tennis News)

The Indian duo won 6-3, 7-6 (7) to book a last-eight stage berth.

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They will take on another Indian pair of Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan, who registered a 6-0, 6-4 win over the Belgian duo of Michael Geerts and Britian's Billy Harris.

Finalist in Delhi last week, Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Zimbabwe's Courtney John Lock combined to get past Canadians Alexis Galarneau and Kelsey Stevenson, winning 6-4,7-6(1) to also make the quarterfinals.

However, other Indians in action, including wildcards Siddhant Banthia, Parikshit Somani, Karan Singh and Nitin Kumar Sinha fell short.

In an upset,hot646 Russian pair of Petr Bar Biryukov and Ilia Simakin beat third seeds Aniruddha Chandrashekar and Taipei's Ray Ho 7-6 (3), 6 (5)-7, 10-4.

In the singles second round, eighth-seeded Alexis Galarneau of Canada beat wildcard Michael Geerts of Belgium 6-4, 6-4, while last edition winner Valentin Vacherot of Monaco ended the run of Japanese qualifier Masamichi Imamura 6-2, 6-3 in just over an hour to enter the quarterfinals.

Czech Republic's Dalibor Svrcina rallied past Jurij Rodionov of Austria, winning 6-4, 7-5 while qualifier Ilia Simakin of Russia proved too strong for Australia's James McCabe, prevailing 6-2, 6-4 to make it to the quarterfinals.

Argentina's Monja Federico opened the scoring through a field goal just in the third minute as India fell behind early in the game. India did not take long to level the scores with Araijeet Singh Hundal finding the net in the seventh minute.

Belgium were ahead 2-0 at half-time with goals from Ambre Ballenghien (14th minute) and Vanessa Blockmans (20th). Both the Belgium goals came from penalty corners.para manalo