Top billing for Vishnu

Davis Cupper Vishnu Vardhan, ranked 385, is the top seed in the $10,000 ITF Futures Men’s tournament to be held here from May 28 to June 2.

The qualifying round matches will be played May 26 and 27 at the PET Stadium courts while Prem Sugars are the title sponsors.

Besides Vardhan, nine other Indian players figure in the main draw including Vijayant Malik (448), Ranjeet Virali Murugesan (510), Rohan Gajjar (545), Saketh Myneni (588), N Sriram Balaji (650), Ashwin Vijayragavan (946), Vignesh Peranamallur (959) Kaza Vinayak Sharma (966) and Sidharth Rawat (1124).

Vinod Gowda will provide the local flavour while the tournament has attracted entries from Britain, Italy, Australia, the US, China and France. Eight qualifiers would make it to the main draw along with four wild cards to complete the field of 32.

This is the first time an ITF Men’s Futures is being held in Mandya which had hosted the women’s ITF tournament in 2010.