Ramkumar Ramanathan defeated Aldin Setic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 7-6 (7), 4-6, 6-3 in the first round of the €44,820 Challenger tennis tournament in Ekental, Germany on Wednesday.
Other results: €44,820 Challenger, Bergamo, Italy: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Radu Albot (MDA) and Artem Sitak (NZ) bt Anirudh Chandrasekhar and Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-2, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF Men, Monastir, Tunisia: Singles (1st round): Nikita Wolonsky (Aus) defeated Rishabhdev Raman 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles (Pre-quarterfinals): Mirko Martinez (Needle) and Ajit Rai (NZ) bt Zakai Stone (US) and Aman Siddiqui 6-4, 6-2; Warren Wood (USA) and Tushar Sharma bt Wissam Abder Rahman and Mohammad Amin Auselati (Tun) 7-6(5), 3-6, [10-8].
$60,000 ITF Women, Nantes, France: Singles (1st round): Anhelina Kalinina (Ukr) bt Karman Kaur Thandi 6-3, 6-3; Sada Nahimana (BD) bt Ankita Raina 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF Women, Heraklion, Greece: Singles (1st round): Karen Mathiens (FRA) bt Soumya Bavisetti 6-3, retired.
$15,000 ITF Women, Monastir, Tunisia: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Nicole Gadiant and Corina Mader (Needles) bt Emira Stafford (US) and Jennifer Luikham 7-6(3), 6-2.
$15,000 ITF Women’s, Castellón, Spain: Singles (1st round): Carlotta Martinez Sirez (KHAS) defeated BT Satwika Sama 6-0, 6-1.
Doubles (Pre-quarterfinals): Maria Josefina Zander (Arg) and Satvika Sama, Mihela Djokovic (Sri Lanka) and Chantal Sauvant (Germany).
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