Siddharth Vishwakarma, the national championship finalist, recovered from a break down in the decider to get past Tejas Chaukulkar 5-7, 7-5, 7-6(3) in the first round of the $15,000 ITF Futures tennis tournament on Tuesday.
Youngsters Aryan Goveas and Adil Kalyanpur ran into tough opponents in top seed Sriram Balaji and fourth seed Vijay Sundar Prashanth to bow out in straight sets.
The results: First round: Sriram Balaji bt Aryan Goveas 6-3, 7-5; Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-2, 6-3; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Tejas Chaukulkar 5-7, 7-5, 7-6(3); V.M. Ranjeet bt Adriaan de Jager (Ned) 6-3, 6-4; Vishnu Vardhan bt Mohammed Iftikhar Sheikh 6-4, 6-3.
