Mandya (Karnataka), May 28 (IANS) One-sided encounters marked the opening day of the Prem Sugars ITF Mandya Open tennis tournament here Monday when only three single ties were played.
Second seed Ranjeet Virali Murugesan prevailed over Vinod Gowda 6-4, 6-0. Bangalore lad Vinod kept pace with his fancied opponent in the first set, but faded away in the second.
The other two singles matches also saw straight-set victories in which fourth seeded Saket Myneni beat Abhijeet Tiwari 6-4. 6-3 and Sidharth Rawat defeated Saurabh Patil 6-1, 6-0.
Earlier, P.C. Jaffer, Mandya deputy commissioner and chairman of organising committee, inaugurated the event.
The results (Indians unless mentioned):
Singles: Sidharth Rawat bt Saurabh Patil 6-1, 6-0; 2-Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan bt Vinod Gowda 6-4, 6-0; 4-Saketh Myneni bt Abhijeet Tiwari 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles: N Sriram Balaji/Arun Prakash Rajagopalan bt Bharatram Balajee/Bharath Srinivasan Parthasarathy 6-1, 6-3; Scott Puodziunas (AUS)/Gavin Van Peperzeel (AUS) bt Arnav Mohanty (USA)/Arsav Mohanty (USA) 6-0, 6-1; Sebastein Boltz (FRA)/Francesco Vilardo (ITA) bt Krishik Divakar/Sagar Manjanna 6-3, 6-2; Kunal Anand/Ajai Selvaraj bt Zach Itzstein (AUS)/Ashwin Vijayragavan (IND) 7-5, 1-6, 10-7; Vijayant Malik/Vivek Shokeen bt Neeraj Elangovan/Fariz Mohammed 6-1, 6-2; Ronak Manuja/Abhijeet Tiwari bt Yogesh Phogat/Sidharth Rawat 6-2, 6-3; Saketh Myneni/Bowen Ouyang(CHN) bt Vinod Gowda/Venkat Iyer 6-1, 6-0; Elvin Antony/Saurabh Patil bt Arvind Vishnu Bestha/Vignesh Veerabadran 6-4, 7-6(3).
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