{"id":9527,"date":"2023-02-26T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T17:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=9527"},"modified":"2023-02-26T22:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T17:27:20","slug":"poonacha-makes-most-of-the-qualifying-wildcard-lone-indian-to-move-into-final-round-qualifying-at-pmr-open-atp-challenger-100-mens-international-tennis-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=9527","title":{"rendered":"Poonacha, makes most\u00a0 of the Qualifying wildcard, lone Indian to move into final round qualifying at\u00a0PMR Open ATP Challenger 100 Men\u2019s International Tennis Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pune: Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha \u00a0justified the organisers Decision of awarding him a qualifying Wildcard as he became the Lone Indian out of eight Indian players in action to move into the final round qualifying of the PMR Open ATP Challenger 100 Men’s international tennis championships sponsored by PMRDA\u00a0 and organised by Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA)at\u00a0the Shri Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Tennis Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 719th ranked Poonacha carved out a close 6-7(7-5),6-4,6-4 win over former World No 4 Junior and  358th  ranked and sixth seeded  Frenchman Giovanni Mpetsshi Perricard  in exactly 2 hours to move into the final round qualifying<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other Indians in fray  went down without any fight in the home conditions second seeded Serbian Nikola Milojevic rallied out Digvijaypratap Singh 6-1,7-5 , Russian Alibek Kachmazov seeded fourth proved too experienced for young wildcard   Chirag Duhan winning 6-3, 
Seventh Seeded  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yunseong Chung of Korea outplayed another wildcard   Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2,6-2 , eighth seeded Carlos Sanchez Jover overpowered local boy and winner of the local wildcard event  Nishit Rahane  6-1, 6-1  , while Colin Sinclair served out alternate entrant S D Prajwal Dev  6-3,6-4 , Australian Dayne Kelly was too strong for Siddharth Rawat winning 6-3, 6-2.Benjamin Lock of  Zimbabwe came back strongly from the loss of the first set to quell  Manish Sureshkumar  2-6, 6-1,6-1 and end his challenge . Following are the Results: First Qualifying Round:<\/strong>
Jay Clarke(GBR)(1) bt Arthur Weber(FRA) 7-6(3),6-2Nikola Milojevic(SRB)(2) bt Digvijaypratap Singh(IND) 6-1,7-5Akira Santillan(AUS) bt Jason Jung(TPE)(3)6-4,1-1(RET)<\/strong>Alibek Kachmazov(RUS)(4) bt (WC) Chirag Duhan(IND) 6-3, 6-3(WC) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha(IND) bt Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (FRA) (6)6-7(5),6-4,6-4<\/strong>
Yunseong Chung(South KOR)(7)  bt (WC) Nitin Kumar Sinha(IND) 6-2,6-2Carlos Sanchez Jover(ESP)(8) bt (WC) Nishit Rahane(IND) 6-1, 6-1Dominik Palan(CZE)(11) bt Petr Nouza(CZE)6-3, 6-4
Colin Sinclair(NMI) bt S D Prajwal Dev(IND) 6-3,6-4
Benjamin Lock(ZIM) bt Manish Sureshkumar (IND)2-6, 6-1,6-1Dayne Kelly(AUS) bt Siddharth Rawat(IND) 6-3, 6-2 Makoto Ochi(JPN) bt Calum Puttergill(AUS) 6-1, 6-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pune: Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha \u00a0justified the organisers Decision of awarding him a qualifying Wildcard as he became the Lone Indian out of eight Indian players in action to move into the final round qualifying of the PMR Open ATP Challenger 100 Men’s international tennis championships sponsored by PMRDA\u00a0 and organised by Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bs-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9530,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9527\/revisions\/9530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}