Yuta Shimizu of Japan beat Benjamin Bonzi within the Delhi Open Challenger tennis match on Wednesday, February 28, 2024.
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Yuta Shimizu performed energetic strokes with admirable accuracy to beat the highest seed and former world No. 42 Benjamin Bonzi 7-5, 6-4 within the pre-quarterfinals of the Dafa Information $82,000 Delhi Open Challenger tennis on the DLTA Advanced on Wednesday.
Bonzi was erratic, and thus each time he tried to struggle again by breaking Shimizu’s serve, he was unable to capitalise on the opening. He did struggle bravely, saving match factors, nevertheless it solely stretched the competition just a little extra.
Compared, the short-built Shimizu pounced on the possibilities that got here his manner, and transformed six of seven break factors to make it a straight ahead affair.
Within the quarterfinals the 24-year-old Shimizu, ranked 235, will tackle Enrico Dalla Valle of Italy.
There was an extra blow to the occasion, because the Pune Challenger champion and the third seed, Valentin Vacherot of Monaco gave a walkover to Coleman Wong of Hong Kong. Vacherot had been drained of vitality in a long-drawn first spherical in opposition to qualifier Jonas Forejtek of the Czech Republic.
The Indian problem in doubles was sustained by the second seeds, Arjun Kadhe and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, who beat the Koreans Seongchan Hong and Soonwoo Kwon in straight units.
The champions of the primary two Challengers in Chennai and Bengaluru, high seeded Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan weren’t at their finest and had been overwhelmed in straight units by Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner of Germany.
The Germans will face one other Indian pair of Nitin Kumar Sinha and Manish Sureshkumar within the quarterfinals.
Nevertheless, there was no such luck for Rithvik Bollipalli and Niki Poonacha as they went down Sept. 11 within the tremendous tie-break in opposition to one other alternate staff, Rifki Fitriadi and Ryuki Matsuda.
The outcomes (pre-quarterfinals): Singles: Yuta Shimizu (Jpn) bt Benjamin Bonzi (Fra) 7-5, 6-4; Enrico Dalla Valle (Ita) bt Federico Gaio (Ita) 7-6(5), 6-1; Coleman Wong (Hkg) w/o Valentin Vacherot (Mon); Tristan Schoolkate (Aus) bt Goncalo Oliveira (Por) 6-3, 7-6(4).
Doubles: Jakob Schnaitter & Mark Wallner (Ger) bt Saketh Myneni & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-4; M Rifki Fitriadi (Ina) & Ryuki Matsuda (Jpn) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha 7-6(5), 4-6, [11-9]; Piotr Matuszewski (Pol) & Matthew Romios (Aus) w/o Enrico Dalla Valle (Ita) & Goncalo Oliveira (Por); Arjun Kadhe & Jeevan Nedunchzhiyan bt Seongchan Hong & Soonwoo Kwon (Kor) 7-6(5), 6-3.
