Bengaluru, May 19 -- Manish Sureshkumar didn't just win this one, he wrestled it away when it mattered most, knocking out top seed Keegan Smith 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 in a see-sawing Round of 32 clash at the SM Krishna Memorial Open ATP Challenger that swung back and forth for an hour and 46 minutes.
This was a match defined not just by shots and rallies, but by mindset, and Sureshkumar summed it up in a line that captured the tone of his upset: "He had the pressure, not me."The Indian turned that belief into performance on court, producing a composed and increasingly assertive display to stun the top seed, using freedom and clarity in decision-making to overturn expectations at key stages of the contest.
It had all the ingredients of a Challenger...