India F10 Futures, Gulbarga - Day 2 Results

Croatia's Ivan Cerovic, runner-up at the India F9 Futures (Bellary) last week, had trouble getting past Indian prodigy Yuki Bhambri in the first round at Gulbarga.

The 15-year-old Bhambri made sure the third-seeded Croatian sweated it out for a 7-6(8),4-6,7-6(6) win and that too after the teenager had missed a couple of matchpoints.

Bhambri's gritty performance against a player ranked one thousand places above him on the ATP list marks him out as a future hope for India.

There were no major surprises on Day 2 of the India F10 Futures though some matches were abandoned after a sudden spell of rain.

(Indian players in bold)
Singles Round 1
(4)Dekel Valtzer(ISR) beat Navdeep Singh7-5,6-3
Vivek Shokeen beat (Q)Vignesh Peranamallur Chandrasekhar 6-3,7-6(3)
(7)Marek Semjan(SVK) beat (Q)Rohan Gajjar 3-6,6-3,6-4
(3)Ivan Cerovic (CRO) beat (Q)Bhambri, Yuki 7-6(8),4-6,7-6(6)
(Q)Ajai Selvaraj beat (WC)Vijayant Malik 2-6,6-3,7-5

Rain-delayed matches
(1)Pavol Cervenak(SVK) leads (WC)Rupesh Roy 7-6(4),3-3
(2)Rainer Eitzinger(AUT) leads Rohan Gide 6-2,5-1
Vijay Kannan leads (LL)Varun Walia 4-2

Day 1 results