Vivek Shokeen and Ashutosh Singh, winners at the India F9 Futures (Bellary) last week, were routed in the first round of the Gulbarga event on Monday. Top seeded Austrians Rainer Eitzinger and Philipp Oswald, who lost in the Bellary final, were also ousted.
Third seeds Purav Raja and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya were upstaged by a pair of Slovakians. In the singles event, Tushar Liberhan impressed with a 6-2,6-2 win over Ukrainian Ivan Anikanov, a player ranked 22 places above Liberhan on the ATP list.
(Indian players in bold)
Singles Round 1
Aditya Madkekar beat (WC) Arjun Goutham 6-2,6-4
Ashutosh Singh beat (Q) Yannick Nelord 6-2,6-4
Tushar Liberhan beat Ivan Anikanov(UKR) 6-2,6-2
(6)Alexey Kedryuk(KAZ) beat Vishnu Vardhan 6-4,6-1
(Q)Robert Belak(SRB) beat (WC)Kaushik Raju 6-0,6-0
Doubles Round 1
Rohan Gajjar/Vishnu Vardhan beat (1)Rainer Eitzinger(AUT)/Philipp Oswald(AUT) 6-3,7-6(4)
Tushar Liberhan/Rupesh Roy beat Vivek Shokeen/Ashutosh Singh 6-2,6-4
(4)Ivan Cerovic(CRO)/Dekel Valtzer(ISR) beat Divij Sharan/Navdeep Singh 4-6,6-4,10-5
Robert Belak(SRB)/Darko Madjarovski (SRB) beat Arjun Gautam/Aditya Madkekar 6-3,6-4
Ivan Anikanov(UKR)/Shivang Mishra beat Jagadeesan Kumar/Veera Vasanth Venkatesh Sriramareddy 6-3,6-2
Pavol Cervenak(SVK)/Marek Semjan(SVK) beat (3)Purav Raja/Sunil Kumar Sipaeya 6-3,7-6(5)
Rohan Gide/Rahil Makharia beat Vignesh Peranamallur Chandrasekhar/Ajay Selvaraj 7-6,4-6,10-8
(2)Vijay Kannan/Alexey Kedriouk(KAZ) beat Vijay Sundar Prashanth/Kaushik Raju 6-1,6-4
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