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At $10K India F1 Futures, Kolkata

Singles First Round
(1) Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) bt (Q) Vikram REDDY B (IND) 76(5) 76(4)
(WC) N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt (JE) Liang-Chi HUANG (TPE) 61 2-0 Retd.
Yannick NELORD (IND) bt Divij SHARAN (IND) 64 76(4)
Almog MASHIACH (ISR) bt (7) Mikhail VASILIEV (RUS) 75 Retd.
(3) Rohan GAJJAR (IND) bt Vijayant MALIK (IND) 64 64
(WC) Karan RASTOGI (IND) bt Ruben GONZALES (USA) 63 63
Vivek SHOKEEN (IND) bt Ashutosh SINGH (IND) 62 61
(6) Rupesh ROY (IND) bt (WC) Vignesh PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 62 61
(8) Nathan THOMPSON (USA) bt (Q) Kaza Vinayak SHARMA (IND) 62 61
(Q) Peter AARTS (USA) bt (Q) Alexei FILENKOV (RUS) 62 62
(Q) Nysan TAN (CAM) bt (Q) Patrik BRYDOLF (SWE) 63 2-0 Retd.
(4) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Srirambalaji NARAYANASWAMY (IND) 36 61 63
(5) Roman JEBAVY (CZE) bt (WC) Ronak MANUJA (IND) 75 61
Christopher RACZ (USA) bt Stephan FRANSEN (NED) 63 60
(Q) Chris KWON (USA) bt Adrian SIKORA (SVK) 63 76(4)
(Q) Christopher MARQUIS (IND) bt (2) Juan-Pablo VILLAR (ARG) 46 64 Retd.

Doubles First Round
(1) SHARAN (IND)/ VARDHAN (IND) bt MARQUIS (IND)/ MASHIACH (ISR) 62 61
HUANG (TPE)/ NELORD (IND) bt (ALT) FILENKOV (RUS)/ PAVLOV (RUS) 63 64
(3) GAJJAR (IND)/ ROY (IND) bt MANUJA (IND)/ PRASHANTH (IND) 26 64 10-7
(WC) KHAN (IND)/ SUKUL (IND) bt (WC) KANNAN (IND)/ MOHAMMED (IND) 63 63
BRYDOLF (SWE)/ FRANSEN (NED) bt MALIK (IND)/ REDDY B (IND) 64 62
(4) SHOKEEN (IND)/ SINGH (IND) bt GARZELLI (ITA)/ VILLAR (ARG) 46 64 10-4
TIWARI (IND)/ WAGH (IND) bt AARTS (USA)/ RACZ (USA) 76(5) 64
(2) JEBAVY (CZE)/ SIKORA (SVK) bt NARAYANASWAMY (IND)/ PERANAMALLUR-CHANDRASEKHAR (IND) 64 64

9 Indians r in second round ... Vikram Reddy stretched Vishnu but Rupesh, Vivek and Karan scored comfortable wins ... Christopher Marquis received lucky break as his is 2nd seed oponent retired but happy to see he got 1 ranking point after qualifying.
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At $125K+H Marrakech Challenger, Morocco (clay)

[R1] Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Jamie Delgado (GBR) l Ilija Bozoljac (SRB)/ Horia Tecau (ROU) 46 26

Another disappointing performance on clay from Harsh.