Ranjeet too good for Gowda

Second seed Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan got off to a promising start on the opening day of the Prem Sugars $10,000 ITF Mandya Open tennis tournament here on Monday.

Ranjeet outclassed unseeded Vinod Gowda 6-4, 6-0 in the first round. After capturing the first set 6-4, Virali-Murugesan then stepped on the gas, knocking off Gowda 6-0 in the second to wrap up a convincing victory.

In the other singles contests of the day, Sidharth Rawat crushed Saurabh Patil 6-1, 6-0 while fourth-seeded Saketh Myneni beat Abhijeet Tiwari 6-4, 6-3.

First round results (Indians unless mentioned, prefix denotes seeding): Singles: Sidharth Rawat bt Saurabh Patil 6-1, 6-0; 2-Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan bt Vinod Gowda 6-4, 6-0; 4-Saketh Myneni bt Abhijeet Tiwari 6-4, 6-3.

Doubles: N Sriram Balaji/ Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan bt Bharatram Balajee/ Bharath-Srinivasan Parthasarathy 6-1, 6-3; Scott Puodziunas/ Gavin Van Peperzeel (Aus) bt Arnav Mohanty/ Arsav Mohanty (US) 6-0, 6-1; Sebastein Boltz (Fra)/ Francesco Vilardo (Ita) bt Krishik Divakar/ Sagar Manjanna 6-3, 6-2; Kunal Anand/ Ajai Selvaraj bt Zach Itzstein (Aus)/ Ashwin Vijayragavan 7-5 (7-5), 1-6, 10-7; Vijayant Malik/ Vivek Shokeen bt Neeraj Elangovan/ Fariz Mohammed 6-1, 6-2; Ronak Manuja/ Abhijeet Tiwari bt Yogesh Phogat/ Sidharth Rawat 6-2, 6-3; Saketh Myneni/ Bowen Ouyang (Chn) bt Vinod Gowda/ Venkat Iyer 6-1, 6-0; Elvin Antony/ Saurabh Patil bt Arvind Vishnu Bestha/ Vignesh Veerabadran 6-4, 7-6 (7-3).