Kwon Defeats Gunneswaran; Top Seed Paire Upset In Pune

Korean Soonwoo Kwon defeated India’s top singles player, Prajnesh Gunneswaran, to secure his place in the quarter-finals of the Tata Open Maharashtra on Thursday. The No. 4 seed clinched the 6-3, 7-6(5) win in one hour and 43 minutes.

Kwon, 22, will look to reach his first ATP Tour semi-final when he next meets Egor Gerasimov. The eighth-seeded Bulgarian rallied past Serbian qualifier Nikola Milojevic 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Italian Roberto Marcora recorded the upset of the tournament when he ousted top seed Benoit Paire of France 6-4, 6-4. The 30-year-old Marcora, currently No. 174 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, had not won a tour-level match prior to this week.

Marcora will next meet Australian James Duckworth, the No. 6 seed, who needed two hours and 52 minutes to defeat Japan’s Taro Daniel 6-7(4), 7-6(6), 6-3.

Top Seeds Fall In Doubles
The top seeds in the doubles draw also bowed out Thursday, with Robin Haase and Robert Lindstedt falling to Romain Arneodo and Andre Begemann 6-3, 6-3.

Third seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andrei Vasilevski made their way safely through to the semi-finals as they prevailed against Italians Paolo Lorenzi and Stefano Travaglia 5-7, 6-1, 10-8.

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