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However, India's fourth seed Sasi Kumar Mukund fell 4-6 6-6 4-6 to Isa Mammetgulyyev, a wild Card from Turkmenistan.
Updated : Sep 29, 2017, 11:59 PM IST
Sumit Nagal, the junior Wimbledon doubles champion, made short work of Kazakhstan's Timur Khabibulin 6-2 6-1 to advance to the singles second round of the US $10,000 ITF men's Futures event, here on Tuesday.
In the second major upset of the day, Sidharth Rawat played aggressively to dispose of fifth seed Yannick Thivant of France 6-4 6-4.
However, India's fourth seed Sasi Kumar Mukund fell 4-6 6-6 4-6 to Isa Mammetgulyyev, a wild Card from Turkmenistan.
Another Indian who advanced was left-handed Prajnesh Gunneswaran, who demolished compatriot Manish Sureshkumar for the loss of just two games.
Qualifier S D Prajwal Dev got the better of Lucas Renard of Sweden 7-5 6-0 and Suraj R Prabodh got into his own after losing a set to get the better of qualifier Hardeep Singh Sandhu 4-6 6-2 6-1.
V M Ranjeet the sixth seed scored a routine straight set victory over Jajbir Saran 6-4 6-3, while P C Vignesh completed the line up for the second round when he outplayed Risyhabdev Raman 6-4 6-2.
Results (first round singles):
Sumit Nagal bt Timur Khabibun (Kaza) 6-2, 6-1,
V Peranamallur bt Rishabdev 6-4, 6- 2,
Sidharth Rawat bt Yannicl Thivant (Fra) 6-4, 6-4,
P Gunasekaran bt Manish Suresh Kumar 6-0, 6-2,
V M Ranjeet bt Jajbir Saran 6-4, 6-3;
Suraj R Prabhodh bt Hardip Singh Sandhu 4-6, 6-2, 6-1,
S D Prajwal Dev bt Lucas Renard (Swe) 7-5, 6-0
Isa Mammetgulyyev (TKM) bt S Mukund (Ind) 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
Men s Doubles (Q.F):
Jeevan Nedunchezhian/Vijay Sundaqr Prasant bt Rashein Samuel/ Tejas Chakulkar 7-6(3),6-4;
Niki Poonacha/Neeraj bt Suraj Pramod/S D Prajwal Dev 7-5, 6-2,
Sriram Balaji/Arun Prakash Rajagopalan bt Ajai Selvaraj/Rishabhdev Raman 6-3, 6-7(2), 10-6;
Lucas Renard/Yannick Thivant bt Ayush Mintri/Digvijay Singh Mehta 6 -3, 6-0.