“Oleksandr Ovcharenko overcame Pirosh at the start of Chelener in Chennai”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
In the 1st Round, the Ukrainian overcame eighth sown Flower Pirosh (Hungary, ATP 214) in 2 hours and 13 minutes.
ATP Chelender Chennai. Hard. 1/16 finals
Pirosh’s (Hungary) [8] – Alexander Ovcharenko (Ukraine) – 6: 7 (4: 7), 4: 6
It was the first meeting of rivals. Ovcharenko will fight against Alexei Zakharova for a place in the quarterfinals Ovcharenko.
Ovcharenko holds the third tour tournament in the new season. His account has 5 matches and 2 defeat.
For Alexander, victory over Pirosh became the most rating in his career. Its preliminary result was Victoria over Aziz Dugas a week earlier in the match of Tunisia and Ukraine. Then Dugas took the 227th position.
There were two more Ukrainian tennis players in Chennai: Eric Vanshelboim (APR 501) and Yuri Javakyan (APR 506). Both have been qualified. Eric has overcome Sidhart Ravata (India, ATR 863) [6:4, 5:7, 6:3] and Manisha Surekumar (India, ATP 961) [6:2, 6:3]. And Yuri coped with Rashab Agarwal (India, ATP 1068) [6:4, 6:3] and Chirag Duhan (India, ATP 964) [4:6, 6:1, 7:6].
Unfortunately, with the drawing of Varshelboy and Javaakyan was not lucky. Already in the 1/16 finals, they played against two sowing leaders – Billy Harris (United Kingdom, ATP 129) and Lloyd Harris (South Africa, ATP 144), respectively. Eric lost to the British with a score of 5: 7, 2: 6, and Yuri gave way to the South African 3: 6, 7: 5, 0: 6.