de Alboran. , Photo credits: R. Raghu
Nicolas Moreno de Alboran of America caused an upset by defeating top seed Chun-Hsien Tseng in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 in the second round of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger 100 tournament on Wednesday. World No. 213 Alboran broke the Taiwanese twice in the first set to take a 5-0 lead. Although Tseng managed to break once, he was broken again in the eighth game and politely surrendered the set.
Alboran played aggressively with his powerful forehand stroke, especially on Tseng’s second serve.
Known for his speed on the court, Tseng looked better in the second set and even broke in the fourth game after Alboran committed two double faults.
The American, however, made a quick comeback by breaking in the eighth game. To stay in the match, Tseng threw in the towel and broke in love as she hit some unforced errors and a double fault in the tenth game.
Result:
Singles: Second round: Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (USA) bt Chun-Sin Tseng (TPE) 6-2, 6-4; Yasutaka Uchiyama (JPN) bt Dalibor Svarsina (Czech Republic) 6-1, 6-7, 6-4; Arthur Cajoux (Fr) bt Seong Chan Hong (Cor) 6-3, 6-4; Dane Sweeney (Aus) bt James McCabe (Aus) 6-2, 6-1.
Doubles: First round: Sriram Balaji & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Frederico Ferreira Silva (Por) & Nicolas Moreno de Alboran (USA) 6-4, 7-5; Petr Knuza & Andrew Paulson (Czech Republic) b Mark Polmans / Max Purcell (Aus) 6-4, 6-4; Jisung Nam & Minkyu Song (Cor) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan & Vishnu Vardhan 1-6, 7-6, 10-5; Sebastian Offner (Aus) & Nino Serdarusic (Crow) bt Dimitar Kuzmanov (Bull) & Hamad Medjedovic (SRB) 7-5, 6-4; Ryan Peniston (GBR) & Dalibor Svarisina (Czech Republic) bt Anirudh Chandrasekhar & N Vijay Sundar Prashant 6-7, 6-1, 10-7; Sumit Nagal & Sasikumar Mukund bt Yew Siow Soo (TPE) & Christopher Rungkat (INA) 7-6, 2-1 (retd); Arjun Kadhe & J Clarke (GBR) v Dayne Kelly & Dane Sweeney (Aus) 3-6, 6-3, 10-7; Francesco Maestrelli & Luca Nardi (ITA) bt Callum Puttergill & Akira Santillan (Aus) 6-2, 6-3.