Ilya Ivashka ended Manish Sureshkumar ’s run with a straight-sets win.
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Kriish Tyagi surprised second seed Hamish Stewart 7-6(7), 5-7, 6-4, to scalp the largest win of his fledgling profession, and advance to the semifinals of the Karnataka Open ATP Challenger on the S.M. Krishna Tennis Stadium right here on Thursday.
The 19-year-old saved three break factors within the ninth sport to power a tie-breaker within the first set earlier than successful it. Stewart (World No. 328) gained the second earlier than Tyagi broke serve to take a 5-4 lead within the decider. The World No. 1332 quickly sealed the encounter which lasted two hours and 40 minutes.
Tyagi did properly to counter Stewart’s massive serves. “I’ve performed massive servers earlier than and learnt that if I could make two good returns, they all of the sudden don’t know what to do. I simply tried to remain stable and maintain placing the ball again in play,” Tyagi mentioned on countering Stewart’s massive serves.
Tyagi will face fourth seed Philip Sekulic of Australia within the last-four on Friday.
Fellow Indian Manish Sureshkumar went down 3-6, 3-6 to former World No. 40 Ilya Ivashka, whereas American Keegan Smith acquired the higher of the Serb Ognjen Milic 7-6(5), 6-3.
The outcomes (quarterfinals): Ilya Ivashka bt Manish Sureshkumar 6-3, 6-3; Keegan Smith (USA) bt Ognjen Milic (Srb) 7-6(5), 6-3; Philip Sekulic (Aus) bt Maximus Jones (Tha) 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-1; Kriish Tyagi bt Hamish Stewart (GBr) 7-6(7), 5-7, 6-4.
Doubles: Petr Bar Biryukov & Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) bt Sergey Betov & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 4-6, 7-5, [10-8]; Prajwal Dev & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Jeffrey Chuan (Tpe) & Christopher Papa (USA) 6-4, 7-5; Niki Poonacha & Saketh Myneni bt Sidharth Rawat & Manish Sureshkumar 6-3, 7-6(3); Adil Kalyanpur & Mukund Sasikumar bt Dominik Palan (Cze) & Digvijaypratap Singh 7-6(5), 6-3.
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