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Schuettler to play in Delhi
NEW DELHI: New Delhi will host back-to-back $50,000 ATP Challenger tennis tournaments from Monday that will feature former top 10 player Rainer Schuettler of Germany at the DLTA tennis Complex here.
Schuettler has been seeded fifth, while the Czech Republic’s Ivo Minar, ranked 110 in the World, is the top seed.
At the draw ceremony here on Saturday, Rohan Bopanna faces a tough opponent in Russia’s Igor Kunitsyn in the opening round.
Three Indians — Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Harsh Mankad, Navdeep Singh — were given wild cards, while Filipino Cecil Mamit got the fourth wild card.
The results: Qualifying:
Second round: Frank Moser (Ger) bt Dekel Valtzer (Isr) 6-4, 6-0; Tushar Liberhan bt Kamala Kanna 6-0, 6-4.
Dmitry Vlasov (Rus) bt Yannick Nelord 6-2, 6-0; Xin-Yuan Yu (Chn) bt Gursharan Singh 6-2, 6-1; Purav Raja bt Vijay Kannan 5-1 retd.
Sunil Kumar Sipaeya bt Ranjeet Virali Murugesan 7-6(5), 2-1 retd.; Rohan Gajjar bt Nishank Mishra 6-3, 6-2.
Guillaume Couillard (Mon) bt Hyun-Woo Nam (Kor) 6-0, 6-3.
First round: Valtzer bt Daniel Andrea Rodriguez-Redondo (Esp) 6-1, 6-2; Moser bt Shivang Mishra 6-2, 6-1; Liberhan by Karunudar Singh 6-3, 6-2; K. Kannan bt Divij Sharan 3-6, 7-6(3), 7-5; Vlasov bt Vivek Shokeen 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-3.
Nelord bt Varun Walia 6-3, 6-4; G. Singh bt Vikas Chauhan 6-2, 6-3; Yu bt Ilia Marchenko (Ukr) 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-4; Raja bt Juho Paukku (Fin) 7-5, 7-6(6); V. Kannan bt Saif Ali 6-2, 6-3.
Murugesan bt Rupesh Roy 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Sipaeya bt Gurmehar Singh 6-3, 6-3; Gajjar bt Ajai Selvaraj 7-6(3), 6-2; Couillard bt Rohan Gide 6-2, 6-4; Nam bt Vishnu Vardhan 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
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