Sasikumar Mukund upsets No.3 seed Safwat,Prajnesh has it easy

India's Sasikumar Mukund turned a giant killer upsetting third seeded Mohameed Safwat of Egypt in straight sets to storm into the quarterfinals of the Chennai Open ATP Challenger 80 tennis tournament Thursday.

In another pre-quarterfinal match, top-seeded Prajnesh Gunneswaran stamped his class outplaying fellow Indian Arjun Khade 6-4, 6-2 to reach the last eight stage.

It was the 16th seeded young Mukund who stole the show as he played with lot of confidence to down Safwat, an experienced campaigner, 6-3, 6-4.

The 22-year old Mukund started well, serving an ace in his opening game and the two players held serve till 2-all.

After recovering from a spot of bother down 15-30 in the fifth game with two aces, the Indian capitalised on a shaky game from Safwat to break serve and then wrapped up the set 6-3.

Growing in confidence, Mukund got an early break in the second set and then held serve throughout to secure the upset win to face Brydan Klein of Great Britain.

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