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Indian juniors capitalise on enhanced draw

NEW DELHI: The Indian players capitalised on an enhanced qualifying draw to get a taste of success in the Punjab National Bank $15,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Saturday.

With only two foreign players in a draw of 64, it was a fruitful venture for a number of juniors.

In the main draw, to be played from Monday, in some of the interesting contests, the fifth-seeded Ashutosh Singh will play Prajnesh Gunneswaran.

Rohan Gajjar will challenge the top-seeded Peter Gojowczyk of Germany.

Tournament Director Nar Singh assured that all efforts had been made to ensure the smooth conduct of the event despite the hectic construction activity at the venue for the Commonwealth Games.

The seedings: 1. Peter Gojowczyk (Ger), 2. Yuichi Sugita (Jpn), 3. Hyun-Woo Nam (Kor), 4. Sunil Kumar; 5. Ashutosh Singh, 6. Hsin-Han Lee (Tpe), 7. Aqeel Khan (Pak), 8. Divij Sharan.

Wild cards: Karunuday Singh, Ronak Manuja, P. C. Vignesh and Navinder Pal Singh.

The results:

Qualifying event (second round): Ajai Selvaraj bt Garry Amor Singh 6-1, 6-3; Nikunj Siwach bt Santosh Ghatage 6-1, 6-1; Whit Livingston (US) bt Reynold Timothy 3-6, 6-2, 6-0; Ankit Sachdeva bt Vijay Siwach 6-4, 6-1; Prateek Bhambri bt Neishit Vakil 6-1, 6-0; Anshuman Dutta bt Amarjyuti Deka 6-3, 6-4; B. Parthasarathy bt Harry Singh Amor 6-2, 6-2; I-Ta Chen (Tpe) bt Chandril Sood 6-3, 6-2; Mithun Murali bt Vikas Chauhan 6-4, 6-3; Yogesh Phogat bt Akshay Kohli 6-2, 6-1; N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Shivraj Singh 6-0, 6-1; Hari Chidambaram bt Shrikant Rathi 7-5, 6-0; Suresh Krishna bt Ravjeet Singh 6-1, 6-0; Pulkit Mishra bt Jitin Bishnoi 7-5 (retired); Palash Tiwari bt Nishank Mishra 6-1, 6-0; Abhijeet Tiwari bt Amartyaa Das 6-1, 6-0.

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