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Navdeep Singh shocks top seed Kyu-Tae Im

NEW DELHI: Navdeep Singh needed just two breaks to breach the defences of the top-seeded Korean Kyu-Tae Im, as the Indian moved into the second round with a 6-3, 6-4 win in the ITF men’s futures tennis tournament here on Monday.

Wild card Harsh Mankad lost to eighth seed Karan Rastogi..

The results:

First round: Navdeep Singh bt Kyu-Tae Im (Kor) 6-3, 6-4; Karan Rastogi bt Harsh Mankad 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Guillermo Alcaide (Esp) bt Ashutosh Singh 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Peng Sun (Chn) bt Tsung-Hua Yang (Tpe) 6-1, 6-4; Vinod Sridhar bt Vishnu Vardhan 7-6(6), 6-4; Vivek Shokeen bt Aditya Madkekar 6-1 ,6-4. Doubles: First round: Mustafa Ghouse & Purav Raja bt Huai-En Chang (Tpe) & Hsien-Woo Nam (Tpe) 6-3, 6-1, Hsin-Han Lee (Tpe) & Tsung-Hua Yang (Tpe) bt Tzu-Yang Lin (Tpe) & Hyun-Woo Nam (Kor) 6-7(7), 7-6(4), 11-9; Sridhar & Vardhan bt Rohan Gajjar & Madkekar 6-2, 6-2; N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth & Ranjeet Virali & Murugesan bt Kamala Kannan & Srirambalaji Narayanaswamy 6-3, 6-4; Aqeel Khan & Yannick Nelord bt Arjun Gouthan & Kaushik Raju 6-3, 6-1; Vijay Kannan & Alexey Kedryuk (Kaz) bt Shunag-Qiang Liang (Chn) & Yu Wang Jr. (Chn) 6-3, 7-5. — Principal Correspondent

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