Tennis News -
At $50K New Delhi Challenger-I, India (Hard)

Singles First Round -
(1) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE,90) bt (Q) Mustafa Ghouse (IND,UNR) 76(4) 26 60
Thomas Oger (FRA,276) bt (WC) Harsh Mankad (IND,667) 76(5) 64
Colin Ebelthite (AUS,234) bt Jae-Sung An (KOR,340) 63 2-0 Retd (left shoulder)
(WC) Ashutosh Singh (IND,602) bt (8) Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS,210) 63 67(6) 76(6)

(4) Go Soeda (JPN,132) bt (LL) Olivier Charroin (FRA,541) 61 62
Guillermo Alcaide (ESP,435) bt Gouichi Motomura (JPN,369) 63 64
(WC) Mohammed Al Ghareeb (KUW,413) bt Andrew Coelho (AUS,294) 76(4) 76(5)
(6) Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK,149) bt Rajeev Ram (USA,268) 63 76(1)

Nick Lindahl (AUS,261) bt (5) Alun Jones (AUS,139) 76(5) 75
Alex Bogdanovic (GBR,255) bt (Q) Peng Sun (CHN,448) 76(1) 64
(Q) Ilia Marchenko (UKR,350) bt Ricardo Mello (BRA,213) 36 64 60
(3) Kristian Pless (DEN,129) bt Alex Satschko (GER,297) 64 57 62

(7) Brendan Evans (USA,198) bt Prakash Amritraj (IND,246) 63 63
Adam Feeney (AUS,274) bt (WC) Yuki Bhambri (IND,1199) 46 63 62
Samuel Groth (AUS,342) bt (LL) Rohan Gide (IND,1405) 62 61
(Q) Travis Rettenmaier (USA,380) bt (2) Gilles Muller (LUX,121) 67(3) 63 63

Doubles First Round -
Rajeev Ram (USA)/ Prakash Amritraj (IND) bt (1) Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) 62 63
Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Ashutosh Singh (IND) bt Alexandre Kudryavtsev (RUS)/ Gouichi Motomura (JPN) 76(2) 64

Colin Ebelthite (AUS)/ Samuel Groth (AUS) bt (4) Olivier Charroin (FRA)/ Thomas Oger (FRA) 76(5) 76(2)
Ricardo Mello (BRA)/ Gilles Muller (LUX) bt (WC) Travis Rettenmaier (USA)/ Sunil Kumar Sipaeya (IND) 60 76(4)

(WC) Rohan Gajjar (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) bt (WC) Tushar Liberhan (IND)/ Navdeep Singh (IND) 36 61 10(5)
(3) Brendan Evans (USA)/ Mustafa Ghouse (IND) bt Go Soeda (JPN)/ Takao Suzuki (JPN) 67(5) 62 Retd. (Takao Suzuki with back pain)

Guillermo Alcaide (ESP)/ Alex Satschko (GER) bt Alun Jones (AUS)/ Kristian Pless (DEN) 64 62 Mohammed Al Ghareeb (KUW)/ Ilia Marchenko (UKR) bt (2) Andrew Coelho (AUS)/ Adam Feeney (AUS) 76(3) 76(9)

So after first round Indian challenge reduce to only Ashutosh Singh in singles and Mustafa Ghouse, Prakash Amritraj, Harsh Mankad, Ashutosh Singh, Rohan Gajjar, Purav Raja in doubles.
But creditable performance from players like Yuki and Mustafa in singles with heroic win by Ashutosh over Russian.