Kwon Defeats Gunneswaran; Top Seed Paire Upset In Pune
Kwon Defeats Gunneswaran; Top Seed Paire Upset In Pune
Korean Soonwoo Kwon defeated India’s top singles player, Prajnesh Gunneswaran, to secure his place in the quarter-finals of the Tata Open Maharashtra on Thursday. The No. 4 seed clinched the 6-3, 7-6(5) win in one hour and 43 minutes.
Kwon, 22, will look to reach his first ATP Tour semi-final when he next meets Egor Gerasimov. The eighth-seeded Bulgarian rallied past Serbian qualifier Nikola Milojevic 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.
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Italian Roberto Marcora recorded the upset of the tournament when he ousted top seed Benoit Paire of France 6-4, 6-4. The 30-year-old Marcora, currently No. 174 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, had not won a tour-level match prior to this week.
Marcora will next meet Australian James Duckworth, the No. 6 seed, who needed two hours and 52 minutes to defeat Japan’s Taro Daniel 6-7(4), 7-6(6), 6-3.
HUGE win for World No. 174 Roberto Marcora! ?
The Italian has defeated No. 1 seed Benoit Paire 6-4 6-4 at the @MaharashtraOpen.
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— ATP Tour (@atptour) February 6, 2020
Paes/Ebden, Top Seeds Haase/Lindstedt Bow Out
Leander Paes’ farewell appearance at his home country tournament came to an end Thursday, as he and partner Matthew Ebden lost to Indians Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2, 6-1. Paes, 46, is playing select tournaments throughout the year as part of a farewell tour that he’s calling ‘One Last Roar’. He won this ATP 250 doubles title on six occasions, in 1997-99, 2002 and 2011-12.
The top seeds in the doubles draw also bowed out, with Robin Haase and Robert Lindstedt falling to Romain Arneodo and Andre Begemann 6-3, 6-3. Arneodo and Begemann will face Andre Goransson and Christopher Rungkat for a place in the final after the Swedish-Indonesian duo advanced with the same score against Frenchmen Antoine Hoang and Paire.
Third seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andrei Vasilevski made their way safely through to the semi-finals as they prevailed against Italians Paolo Lorenzi and Stefano Travaglia 5-7, 6-1, 10-8.
