Eighth seed Vijay Sundar Prashanth came back from a set down to defeat Miliaan Niesten of the Netherlands 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament at Middelburg, Holland, on Wednesday.
Having dropped serve twice at 0-3 in the second set, after losing the first owing to a break of serve in the seventh game, the 28-year-old Indian, ranked 398 in the world, was staring at defeat.
He, however, stepped up his game and reeled off five games on the trot to turn the match around. In the decider also,
Sri Vaishnavi advances in doublesIn the $10,000 ITF women’s event in Egypt, Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy, in partnership with Yana Sizikova of Russia, made the doubles quarterfinals with a 3-6, 6-1, 10-5 victory over Anastasia Bukhanko and Ekaterina Prozorokkova of Russia.
The results: $15,000 ITF men, Middelburg, Holland:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Miliaan Niesten (Ned) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; First round: Vijay Sundar bt Mitchell Stewart (USA) 6-0, 6-4.
$10,000 ITF women, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt:
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Tamachan Momkoonthod & Plobrung Plipuech (Tha) bt I-Hsuan Cho (Tpe) & Ojasvinee Singh 6-1, 2-6, 10-3; Yana Sizikova (Rus) & Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy bt Anastasia Bukhanko & Ekaterina Prozorokova (Rus) 3-6, 6-1, 10-5.
$10,000 ITF women, Sakarya, Turkey:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Mirabelle Njozie (GBR) bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-0, 6-1; Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Cristina Adamescu (Rou) & Cemre Anil (Tur) bt Ina Kaufinger (Ger) & Ashmitha Easwaramuurthi 6-1, 6-2.
ITF grade-2 juniors, Castricum, the Netherlands:
Singles (first round): Sandra Bozinovic (Fra) bt Karman Kaur Thandi 6-0, 6-4.
