![\"Kunal](\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Kunal-Anand.jpg\")
New Delhi: Delhi’s Kunal Anand played aggressive tennis from the baseline to upset third seed VM Ranjeet in the quarter-finals of the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship on Thursday.<\/p>\nNew Delhi: Delhi’s Kunal Anand played aggressive tennis from the baseline to upset third seed VM Ranjeet in the quarter-finals of the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old young man, who has learnt most of his tennis at the Siri Fort DDA complex, hung in well against a seasoned player to force a 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 wins in tough humid conditions.<\/p>\n
Rarely does one get to hear about a player from Delhi making it big in the men’s nationals. Kunal showed that as a journeyman whose ATP ranking hovers in the 800 region, he has the game to be patient and close out the match when it goes down to the wire.<\/p>\n
In recent times, Kunal has been in two ITF doubles finals, and his backhand is the stronger shot. He next runs into Vishnu Vardhan in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Top seed Vishnu Vardhan was in impressive form yet again as he dumped Dalwinder Singh 6-2, 6-4. Familiarity with conditions and experience made it easy for Vishnu in the last eight stages.<\/p>\n
Haadin Bava also entered the semi-finals by defeating Jayesh Pungaliya 7-5, 6-2. Haadin will meet Siddharth Vishwkarma in the second semi-finals. Siddharth ended the winning spree of Tejas Chaukulkar (7-5, 6-4).<\/p>\n
The women’ section also witnessed some long matches in high humidity as top seed Riya Bhatia played an up and down game before ousting Nidhi Chilumula 6-7 (7\/9), 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n
Eetee Maheta was also taken the full distance as she dug deep into her reserves to beat Mihika Yadav 6-7 (5\/7), 6-4, 7-5. In other matches, Pranjalla Yadlapalli and Sharrmadaa Balu also made it to the semi-finals in contrasting styles.<\/p>\n
There were good matches in the under-18 boys’ and girls’ last eight as well with D Suresh toppling BR Nikshep 6-2, 6-3. Second seed Dhruv Sunish and Nitin Sinha stayed on course.<\/p>\n
In the Girls Under 18 second seed Humera Shaikh had to go through a tough three setter to win over Yamalapalli Sahaj 7-6,4-6,7-5. Akanksha Bhan the third seed also entered the semi –finals to be played tomorrow.
Results at 5pm:
Quarter Finals:
Men’s Singles:
Vishnu Vardhan (Seed 1) bt Dalwinder Singh 6-2,6-4; Haadin Bava bt Jayesh Pungaliya 7-5,6-2; Kunal Anand bt V.M Ranjeet (Seed 3) – 5-7,6-4,6-2; Siddhartha Vishwakarma bt Tejas Chaukulkar 7-5,6-4
Women’s Singles:
Riya Bhatia (Seed 1) bt Nidhi Chilumula 6-7(7),6-3,6-2; Eetee Maheta bt Mihika Yadav 6-7(5),6-4,7-5; Pranjalla Yadlapalli bt Jennifer Luikham 6-2,6-1; Sharrmadaa Balu bt Vaidehi Chaudhary 7-5,6-4
Boys’ Under 18:
D Suresh bt B.R Nikshep (Seed 1) 6-2,6-3; Dhruv Sunish (Seed 2) bt Param Punj 6-3,4-6,6-3; Nitin K Sinha (Seed 3) bt Abhinav Sanjiv 7-5,6-3; Paramveer S Bajwa bt Sanket Tomar 7-5,6-3
Girls’ Under 18:
Humera Shaikh (Seed 2) bt Yamalapalli Sahaj 7-6,4-6,7-5; Akanksha Bhan (Seed 3) bt Jennifer Luikham 6-4,1-6,7-6 (4); Lalita Devarakonda (Seed 6) bt Urmi Pandya 6-2,6-1; Y.S Dedeepya bt Tanisha Kashyap 6-2,6-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: Delhi’s Kunal Anand played aggressive tennis from the baseline to upset third seed VM Ranjeet in the quarter-finals of the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old young man, who has learnt most of his tennis at the Siri Fort DDA complex, hung in well against a seasoned player to force a 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 wins in tough humid conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6934,466,2872,12894,1196,7589],"class_list":["post-29230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis","tag-fenesta-open-national-tennis-championship","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-kunal-anand","tag-tennis-news","tag-vishnu-vardhan","tag-vm-ranjeet"],"yoast_head":"\n