Wild card Sidharth Rawat defeated the third-seeded Rohan Gajjar 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 in the first round of the $10,000 ITF men's Futures tennis tournament at the Arera Club courts here on Tuesday.
Champion last week in Chandigarh, Sanam Singh defeated his doubles partner Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-4, 6-2.
The results: Singles (first round): Patrik Rosenholm (Swe) bt Akash Wagh 6-3, 6-3; Rupesh Roy bt Richard Gabb (GBR) 6-4, 7-6(5); Sriram Balaji bt Dineshkanthan Thangarajah (Sri) 6-2, 6-3; Sanam Singh bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-4, 6-2; Kento Takeuchi (Jpn) bt Ronak Manuja 7-5, 6-3; Sam Barry (Irl) bt Maik Burlage (Ger) 6-7(5), 6-0, 6-1; Kenny Bun (Cam) bt R. Ramkumar 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Sarvar Ikramov (Uzb) bt Lucas Renard (Swe) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Aaditya Tewari 6-2, 6-2; Jordi Munoz-Abreu (Esp) bt Mark-Alexander Kepler (Ger) 6-4, 6-2; Rakshay Thakkar bt Hsien-Yin Peng (Tpe) 7-6(2), 4-6, 7-6(5); Sidharth Rawat bt Rohan Gajjar 6-4, 4-6, 7-5; Shuichi Sekiguchi (Jpn) bt V.M. Ranjeet 7-5, 1-6, 3-0 (retired); James Feaver (GBR) bt Miles Bugby (GBR) 6-4, 6-4; Chieh-Fu Wang (Tpe) bt Kunal Anand 7-5, 7-5; Arata Onozawa (Jpn) bt Vivek Shokeen 6-2, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Bugby and Gajjar bt Burlage and Kepler 4-6, 6-3, 10-8; Vijay Sundar Prashanth and Arun Prakash Rajagopalan bt Chandirl Sood and Lakshit Sood 7-6(4), 6-1; Barry and Rosenholm bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Sanam Singh 7-6(4), 1-6, 10-6; Abhijeet Tiwari and Akash Wagh bt Mark Fynn (Zim) and R. Ramkumar 6-4, 6-7(2), 10-8; Kunal Anand and Sidharth Rawat bt Arpit Sharma and Aaditya Tewari 6-4, 6-4; Sriram Balaji and V.M. Ranjeet bt Rupesh Roy and Vivek Shokeen 6-3, 6-4; Feaver and Gabb bt Peng and Sekiguchi 2-6, 6-3, 10-7; Onozawa and Takeuchi bt Shu Saito (Jpn) and Chieh-Fu Wang (Tpe) 7-6(3), 4-6, 10-7.
