Third seed Ramkumar Ramanathan lost 6-0, 6-4 to Evgeny Karlovskiy of Russia in the first round of the $75,000 Challenger.
Ramkumar meanwhile has been sanctioned ₹12.57 lakh by the government under the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) for availing the services of coach Angel Gimenez Alonso, apart from meeting competition and equipment expenses, leading up to the Asian Games.
Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan sailed into the doubles quarterfinals in the German Challenger.
The results: €127,000 Challenger men, Braunschweig, Germany: Doubles (first round): Sriram Balaji & Vishnu Vardhan bt Fabricio Neis (Bra) & Ruan Roelofse (RSA) 6-4, 6-3.
$75,000 Challenger men, Winnetka, US: Singles (first round): Evgeny Karlovskiy (Rus) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-0, 6-4. $25,000 ITF men, Shenzhen: Doubles (quarterfinals): Wu Hao & Zheng Weiqiang (Chn) bt Aryan Goveas & Karunuday Singh 7-6(5), 6-3.
$25,000 ITF men, Kuala Lumpur: Doubles (quarterfinals): Chandril Sood & Lakshit Sood w/o Ryota Tanuma (Jpn) & Cheng-Yu Yu (Tpe).
$25,000 ITF women, Tianjin: Doubles (quarterfinals): Naiktha Bains (Aus) & Shilin Xu (Chn) bt Rutuja Bhosale & Karman Kaur Thandi 6-1, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF women, Nonthaburi: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ankita Raina bt Gabriella Da Silva Fick (Aus) 6-2, 3-6, 6-0. Doubles (quarterfinals): Robu Kajitani (Jpn) & Pei-Chi Lee (Tpe) bt Jang Su Jeong (Kor) & Ankita 6-4, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF women, Hong Kong: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Chin-Wei Chan (Tpe) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(8); Ayumi Koshiishi (Jpn) bt Prerna Bhambri 6-2, 6-2; Zeel Desai bt Yuenu Li (Chn) 6-1, 6-0. Doubles (quarterfinals): Akari Inoue (Jpn) & Zeel bt Yan-Tung Ki & Wing Kiu Jacqueline Lam (Hkg) 6-4, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF women, Solo, Indonesia: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Mahak Jain bt Ani Vangelova (Bul) 6-2, 6-2; Aldila Sutjiadi (Ina) bt Bhuvana Kalva 6-4, 6-2; Zhuoma Ni Ma (Chn) bt Saumya Vig 6-3, 6-0; Zhima Du (Chn) bt Sai Samhitha 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Mana Ayukawa (Jpn) & Aldila Sutjiadi (Ina) bt Sai Samhitha & Mahak Jain 6-2, 6-1; Fitriani Sabatini & Fitriana Sabrina (Ina) bt Bhuvana Kalva & Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy 6-1, 6-2 .
