National Tennis Championship: Kunal Anand, Dakshineshwar Suresh enter second round; Mohit Prakash bows out due to injury
FirstpostDelhi’s fourth seed Kunal faced some stiff resistance from UP’s Lakshya Gupta, who impressed with his ground strokes but eventually emerged a 6-2, 6-4 winner on the opening day of National Tennis Championship. New Delhi: Fourth seed Kunal Anand and Dakshineshwar Suresh entered the men’s singles second round of Fenesta Open but former champion Mohit Mayur Prakash bowed out of the National Hard Courts Tennis Championship due to a knee injury on Monday. Delhi’s fourth seed Kunal faced some stiff resistance from UP’s Lakshya Gupta, who impressed with his ground strokes but eventually emerged a 6-2, 6-4 winner on the opening day of the 25th edition of the tournament. Sanskrithi Damera also scored a dominating win, hammering Salsa Aher 6-0 6-1, while seventh seed Yubrani Banerjee beat Deeksha Manju 6-2 6-2.