Chandigarh (Face2News)
Qualifier Oleksii Krutykh of Ukraine defeated Sumit Nagal 7-6 (4), 6-3 in the singles first round of the € 134, 920 Brawo Open Braunschweig, Germany, on Tuesday. Sumit Nagal got direct entry as an alternate.
Krutykh saved 80 percent (4/5) breakpoints. He won 87 per cent (33/38) first serve points and 60 per cent (12/20) points on second serve. Sumit won 70 per cent points (32/46) on first serve and 47 percent points (8/17) on second serve.
OPEN BOGOTA, COLOMBIA: Ignacio Monzon of Argentina beat Mukund Sasikumar of India 6-1, 6-3 in the second qualifying round of the $53,120 Open Bogota Challenger, Colombia.
Earlier, Mukund Sasikumar had beaten Juan Sebastian Osorio of Colombia in straight sets 6-3 6-2 in the singles first round encounter.
Top Indian doubles pair of Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan have been drawn to meet Nick Chappell of USA and Malek Jaziri of Tunisia in the doubles first round match.
PORTO OPEN, PORTUGAL: Fourth seeded India duo of Purav Raja and Divij Sharan will face sixth seed Steven Diez of Canada and Hiroki Moriya of Japan in the doubles first round fixture in the € 45,730 Porto Open, Portugal.
Another Indian combination of Anirudh Chandrasekar and N Vijay Sundar Prashanth are pitted against Marek Gengel of Czech Republic and Patrik Niklas-Salminen of Finland.
Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni of India have been seeded second doubles and their first match is against Antoine Bellier of Switzerland and Hugo Grenier of France.
