In a re-match of the Aircel Chennai Open first round, top seed Somdev Devvarman was drawn to play Ramkumar Ramanathan at the Shriram Capital-P.L. Reddy Memorial ATP Challenger Tennis Championship that gets underway here on Monday.
Ramkumar, who has been given a wild card for this tournament, had beaten Somdev in three sets then.
Qualifying results: First round: Hiroki Kondo (Jpn) bt Ajai Selvaraj 6-1, 6-1; Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Ashwin Vijayaraghavan 6-2, 6-3; Joshua Milton (Gbr) bt Tyler Hochwalt (USA) 3-6, 6-1, 6-3; Sasi Kumar Mukund bt Vignesh Veerabadran 6-2, 6-2; Victor Baluda (Rus) bt Torsten Wietoska (Ger) 6-3, 6-4.
V.M. Ranjeet bt Sidharth Rawat 6-3, 7-5; Richard Becker (Ger) bt Vinayak Sharma Kaza 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-3; Rahul Robinson Manoah bt Neishit Vakil 6-2, 6-0; Sanam Singh bt Lucas Renard (Swe) 7-5, 6-3.
Marek Semjan (Svk) bt Kunal Anand 6-4, 6-1; N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Bharath-Srinivasan Parthasarathy 6-1, 6-3; Vijayant Malik bt Raswant Ravi 6-1, 6-2; Artem Sitak (Nzl) bt Sagar Ahuja 6-3, 6-3; Karunuday Singh bt Mohit Mayur 6-3, 7-6 (3); Tristan-Samuel Weissborn (Aut) bt Jatin Dahiya 6-4, 6-3; Michael Venus (Nzl) bt Jeevan Velu 6-3, 6-1.
