Ankit advances

Qualifier Ankit Sachdeva overcame Joel Kincaid of the United States 7-6(2), 6-2 to advance into the pre-quarterfinals of the Corporation Bank Manipal Open ITF men's tennis championship on Monday.

The results: First round: (all Indians unless specified): Singles: Ankit Sachdeva bt Joel Kincaid (US) 7-6(2), 6-2; Saurabh Patil bt Vishwanath Savadi 6-4, 7-6(6); Tejesvi Rao bt Shantanu Rajput 6-1, 6-2; Koki Matsuasga (Jpn) bt Fariz Mohammed 6-2, 6-1; Vikram Reddy bt Tejas Chaukulkar 6-4, 7-6(9); Vignesh Pernamulla bt Ronak Manuja 6-2, 6-2.

Doubles: Reshetnikov (Rus)/ Rohan Gajjar bt Amrit Narasimhan/ Sudanawa Sitaram 6-3, 6-1; R. Maheshwari/ Shantanu Rajput bt Vinod Gowda/ Vishwanath Savadi 6-2, 6-4; Ronak Manuja/ Ankit Sachdeva bt Wing-Lun Lam (Hkg)/ Pulkit Mishra 7-5, 6-4; Koki Matsunaga/ Takuto Niki (Jpn) bt Kunal Anand/ Aaditya Tewari 7-6(6), 6-1; Sagar Manjunath/ Veera Venkatesh w/o Joel Kincaid (US)/ Abhaya Prakash; Vijayant Malik/ Vivek Shokeen bt Abhijeet Tiwari/ Akash Wagh 4-6, 6-4, 10-4 (super tie-break).