{"id":17273,"date":"2022-01-29T22:41:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=187423"},"modified":"2022-01-29T22:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T17:11:05","slug":"tata-open-maharashtra-defending-champion-jiri-vesely-faces-lorenzo-musetti-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/tata-open-maharashtra-defending-champion-jiri-vesely-faces-lorenzo-musetti-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Open Maharashtra: Defending champion Jiri Vesely faces Lorenzo Musetti hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Czechia Tennis player, Jiri Vesely has been drawn in the same half as the second seed and Itlay\u2019s sensation Lorenzo Musetti at the Tata Open Maharashtra men\u2019s tennis event, starting on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jiri Vesely who had won the ATP 250 Series event last held in 2020, has been seeded fourth and could run into Lorenzo Musetti in the semis.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Aslan Karatsev is the no. 1 player in the $494,000 event, returning to the calendar after a year\u2019s break due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The 28 player size draw could not have been more solid for the Indian hopefuls. India\u2019s Yuki Bhambri will clash with Slovakia\u2019s Jozef Kovalik in his first round, whereas India\u2019s Prajnesh Gunneswaran will go one on one with Germany\u2019s Daniel Altmaier on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Ramkumar Ramanathan could run into Bhambri in the second round but first, he must beat Itlay\u2019s Stefano Travaglia on Monday. India\u2019s Arjun Kadhe will be playing against Portugal\u2019s Joao Sousa on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>In the doubles, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Rohan Bopanna who had won the title in Adelaide at the beginning of the season, have been ranked second and will start their campaign against the American duo, James Cerretani and Nicholas Monroe on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bhambri and Divij Sharan clash with Austria\u2019s Dennis Novak and Joao Sousa, while Kadhe and Purav Raja will face Moldova\u2019s Radu Albot and Lithuania\u2019s Ricardas Berankis.<\/p>\n<p>In the qualifying, home wildcards Mukund Sasikumar and Manish Sureshkumar could be clashing in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jiri Vesely who had won the ATP 250 Series event last held in 2020, has been seeded fourth and could run into Lorenzo Musetti in the semis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":38019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2069,2291],"class_list":["post-17273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-ramkumar-ramanathan","tag-yuki-bhambri"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}