Fenesta Open: Sureshkumar, Sinha set up semi-final clash

Defending champion and top seed Manish Sureshkumar fought back from a 0-3 deficit in the deciding set to beat Parth Aggarwal 6-1, 5-7, 7-5 after nearly three hours at the 31st Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship in New Delhi on 8 October. He will face his doubles partner, third seed Nitin Sinha, in the semi-finals after Sinha defeated eighth seed Rohan Mehra 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 in two hours and 22 minutes. Sureshkumar and Sinha later combined to reach the men’s doubles final, beating fourth seeds Jagmeet Singh and Parth Aggarwal 6-1, 6-4, they will play Srikar Doni and Rohith Gobinath on 9 October.

In the women’s singles, top seed and two-time champion Vaidehee Chaudhari overcame a second-set setback to beat fifth seed Aditi Rawat 6-0, 1-6, 6-2 and book her semi-final spot against fourth seed Sonal Patil. Second seed Shruti Ahlawat beat eighth seed Sohini Mohanty 6-4, 6-4 to set up a semi-final against unseeded Soha Sadiq, who advanced after third seed Akanksha Nitture retired while trailing 0-3 due to an upper-limb spasm. In the girls’ U-18 singles, seventh seed Aahan Aahan stunned top seed Savitha Bhuvaneswaran 6-4, 6-2.