Top players have an easy first round at Ultratech ITF Kalaburagi Open qualifiers

Kalaburagi, Nov 26: All the top seeded players had an easy outing enroute their entry into the second round of the qualifiers of the Ultratech ITF Kalaburagi Open being played at the Chandrashekar Patil Stadium here on Sunday.

Top seed in the qualifying draw Bharat Nishok Kumaran, second seed Rishi Reddy and 3rd seed Shivank Bhatnagar all got byes in their first round. Amongst the international players, Abhishek Bastola of Nepal and Ha Minh Duc Vu of Vietnam advanced to the second round of qualifying to be played on Monday.

Results (1st round qualifying)
1-Bharat Nishok Kumaran (Bye); Abhishek Bastola (NEP) bt Ravi Panhalkar 6-0, 6-0; 9-Aryan Shah bt Sarthak Suden 6-2, 4-6, 10-7; 3-Shivank Bhatnagar (Bye) Arjun Mahadevan bt Eshan Khadeer 6-0, 6-0; Parth Aggarwal bt Deepak Anantharamu 7-6 (3), 6-2; 6-Ajay Malik bt Tarun Karra 6-3, 7-5; Oges Theyjo Jaya Prakash bt Lohithaksha Bathrinath 4-6, 6-1, 10-4; Muni Ananth Mani bt Rishit Dakhane 6-4, 6-3; 8-Yash Chaurasia w/o Anurag Agarwal; 4-Yash Yadav bt Anuj Maan 6-1, 6-2; 7-Ha Minh Duc Vu (VIE) bt Mohan Kumar Kanike 6-0, 6-0; 5-Sandesh Dattatray Kurale bt Maanav Jain 6-4, 6-3; Tushar Madan bt Aditya Vardhan Duddupudi 6-4, 6-1; Dhruv Hirpara bt Bikramjeet Singh Chawla (USA) 6-3, 7-6 (5); 2-Rishi Reddy (Bye).