G Prajnesh shocks Kaza in ITF Meet

Wild card entrant Prajnesh Gunneswaran carried variety in his armour to beat sixth seed Kaza Vinayak Sharma 6-2 6-4 to set up a title clash against second seed Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan in the final of Raman Sports Trust ITF Men's Futures tennis tournament here tomorrow.
Earlier, in the doubles final, top seeds Nedunchezhian and Vijay Sunder Prasanth dropped the first set narrowly to beat fourth seeds Markos Kalovelonis of Russia and Timur Khabibulin from Kazakhstan 4-6 6-3 10-4 to lift the coveted doubles title.
In the singles semifinal, Nedunchezhyian lost the tie break first set at 6-7 (3) but found his rhythm in the next two sets to win the match at 6-7(3) 6-3 6-3.

Tall and lanky Prajnesh Gunneswaran a left hander was too powerful for Kaza Vinayak Sharma in every aspect of the game. Prajnesh sent down a total of four aces, no doubles faults and won 75% of his service points.
This statistics shows how effective Prajnesh's serve was right throughout the match. Kaza on the other hand was under pressure from the start. Prajnesh started the match breaking Sharma and 3-1 before finally closing out the set at 6-2 with a ace.
In the second set, Prajnesh continued to overpower his opponent breaking Kaza's serve in the fifth game to lead 4-2.

Inspite of Kaza's improved display in the second set, Prajnesh fluently held both his service games to score a 6-4 win in the second set.
In the other semi-final, Neduchezhiyan started in a sluggish manner as a highly motivated Sidharth Rawat broke Jeevan in the third game and kept up the tempo to win the tie break. However, in the next two sets, Nedunchezhian played in a positive manner in winning the match.