Unseeded Ishaque Eqbal upset second-seeded Nitin Kumar Sinha 7-6(6),7-6(4) to enter the final round of qualifying at the $15,000 ITF WTT Cup men's tennis championships on Sunday.
In the other first-round qualifying matches, ninth-seeded Chandril Sood scraped past Yash Chaurasia 2-6, 7-6(4), 15-13 while 11th seeded Suraj R Prabodh was given a tough time by local player Gunjan Jadhav before winning 6-0, 4-6, 10-8.
In other close matches, tenth seeded Faisal Qamar got past local lad Sahil Gaware 7-6(8), 6-4 while thirteenth seeded Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan registered a 6-0,6-3 win over Dmitrii Baskov of Moldova 6-0, 6-3.
Results:
First qualifying round (men's):
Anirudha Chandrasekar(Ind) [1] bt Kapeesh Khandge (Ind)6-1, 6-1;
Ishaque Eqbal (Ind) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha (Ind) [2] Vs 7-6(5), 7-6(4);
Omni Kumar (USA) [3] bt Jagmeet Singh (Ind) 6-4, 6-4;
Henry Patten (Gbr) [4] bt Arjun Mahadevan (Ind) 6-1, 6-3;
George Botezan (Rou) [5] bt Anurag Nenwani (Ind 6-2, 6-1;
Rishi Reddy (Ind) [6] bt Boopathy Sakthivel (Ind)6-3, 6-0;
N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (Ind) [7] Bt (WC)Sandesh Kurale (Ind) 6-2, 6-2;
Mutu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar (Ind) [8] Bt (WC)Anargha Ganguly (Ind) 6-0, 6-4;
Chandra Sood (Ind) [9] bt Yash Chaurasia (Ind) 2-6, 7-6(4), 15-13;
Faisal Qamar (Ind) [10] bt Sahil Gaware (Ind) 7-6(8), 6-4;
Suraj R Prabodh (Ind) [11] bt Gunjan Jadhav (Ind) 6-0, 4-6, 10-8.
Paras Dahiya (Ind) [12] bt (WC)Neeraj Yashpaul (Ind)6-4, 7-5;
Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (Ind) [13] bt Dmitrii Baskov (Mda)6-0, 6-3;
Digvijay Pratap Singh (Ind) [14] bt Tushar Madan (Ind) 6-4, 6-3;
Preston Brown (USA) [15] bt Vignesh Peranamallur (Ind)6-4, 6-0;
Leonardo Catani (Ita) [16] bt Jonathan Binding (Gbr) 7-6(4), 7-5
