Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Sundar Prashanth combined well to beat Hiroki Moriya of Japan and Ze Zhang of China 6-1, 6-4 in the doubles first round of the $50,000 Challenger tennis here on Thursday.
Vishnu Vardhan and Toshihide Matsui of Japan also advanced.
The results: $50,000 Challenger men, Zhangjiagang, China: Doubles: First round: Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Hiroki Moriya (Jpn) & Ze Zhang (Chn) 6-1, 6-4; Toshihide Matsui (Jpn) & Vishnu Vardhan bt Sun Fajing & Wang Chuhan (Chn) 7-6(2), 6-3.
$15,000 ITF men, Cairo: Doubles: First round: Sherif Sabry & Isam Haitham Taweel (Egy) bt Leandro Serrano Sanz (Esp) & Chinmaya Dev Chauhan 6-3, 6-1.
Women: Pre-quarterfinals: Claudia Franze (Ita) bt Riya Bhatia 6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF women, Badenweiler, Germany: Doubles: Quarterfinals: Kristina Milenkovic (Sui) & Dhruthi Venugopal bt Natascha Knnis (Ned) & Ioana Toanchina (Rou) 6-1, 6-1 .
