Top seed Vishnu Vardhan may run into the finalist of the last event, David Agung Susanto of Indonesia, in the second round in the ITF Futures tennis tournament to be played at the Harvest Academy, Jassowal, from Monday.
The 28-year-old has been playing some of the best tennis of his career, winning four titles in a fortnight.
Vishnu is scheduled to open against a qualifier before meeting Susanto who stretched him to three sets in the final.
The results: Qualifying event (second round): Rhett Purcell (GBr) bt Suraj Prabodh 6-1, 7-5; Yuya Ito (Jpn) bt Paras Dahiya 6-1, 6-1; Isa Mammetgulyyev (Tkm) bt Leo Julien Sebaoun (Jpn) 6-2, 7-6(2); Rashein Samuel bt Vilasier Khate 6-3, 6-4; Francis Casey Alcantara (Phi) bt Mritunjay Badola 6-1, 7-6(5); Bernardo Saraiva (Por) bt P.C. Vignesh 6-2, 6-2; Kunal Vazirani bt Prajwal Dev 1-6, 6-4, 6-4; Shahbaaz Khan bt Aditya Deswal 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Jeson Patrombon (Phi) bt Faisal Qamar 6-2, 6-3; Ren Nakamura (Jpn) bt Gokul Suresh 6-0, 6-3; Sai Saran Reddy bt Roy Hobbs (Sin) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; Manish Sureshkumar bt Anirudh Chandrasekar 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-2; Aditya Hari Sasongko (Ina) bt Jajbir saran (default).
