India’s Rishab Dev Raman made a strong first impression defeating third seed Oh Seong-Gook from Korea 6-4, 6-0 in the men’s singles opening qualifying round of the LMW-ITF Futures tennis tournament on Saturday.
The results (first qualifying round): Hyun-Woo-Nam (Kor) bt Karan Salwan (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Shahbaaz Khan (Ind) bt Sunny Dahiya (Ind) 6-0, 6-4; Jae-Min Seol (Kor) bt Brahamjot Singh (Ind) 6-1, 6-1; S.S. Mukund (Ind) bt Mohammed Ashraf (Ind) 6-0, 6-1; Rishab Dev Raman (Ind) bt Oh Seong-Gook (Kor) 6-4, 6-0; Murtaza Lohani (Ind) bt Vikram Naidu (Ind) 7-6 (5), 6-4; Lakshit Sood (Ind) bt Chinmay Pradhan (Ind) 6-1, 6-2; Tejas Chaukulkar (Ind) bt Rynold Timothy (Ind) 6-1, 3-1 (retd.); Roy Hobbs (Sing) bt Sagar Manjanna (Ind) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; Shantanu Rajput (Ind) bt Rithwik Anand (Ind) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Aditya Tewari (Ind) bt Ganga Singh (Ind) 6-0, 6-2; Deepinder Bains (Ind) bt Chandril Sood (Ind) 7-6 (3), 1-6, 7-6 (8); Saurabh Singh (Ind) bt Rohan Gide (Ind) 6-2, 6-2. — Principal Correspondent
