<p>Davis Cupper Vishnu Vardhan will be the cynosure when the Toyota $10,000 ITF Open tennis tournament begins here at the KSLTA courts on Monday.</p>.<p><br />Vishnu, seeded second here, won the Mysore Open on Saturday, defeating seventh seed N Sriram Balaji in the final. He had skipped the Mandya leg which was won by fellow Indian Saket Myneni.</p>.<p><br />Myneni, who had outplayed third seed Vijayant Malik in Mandya, will skip the Bangalore leg, with the 24-year-old scheduled to play in Germany.</p>.<p><br />On the eve of the tournament, Vishnu hoped he would be able to continue the good run. “I hope to carry on with the momentum and put up a good show here,” he said.<br /><br />Apart from Vishnu (ranked 357 in the world), a clutch of top Indian players in the draw — Malik (439), Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (443), Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (484) and N Sriram Balaji (542) — will put pressure on the top seed Taipei’s Chen Ti, ranked 309. <br /><br />Malik, who was finalist at Mandya and semifinalist at Mysore, is seeded third here and will be hoping to go all the way while Davis Cupper Karan Rastogi, who is nursing a sore shoulder, will skip the Bangalore leg. </p>.<p><br />Results (Final qualifying round, prefix denotes seeding): Krishik Divakar bt Shahbaaz Khan 6-3, 6-4; Aaditya Tewari bt 1-Sumeet Shinde 6-4, 6-4; Jatin Dahiya bt 2-Fariz Mohammed 6-7 (7-1), 6-4, 6-2; Yogesh Phogat bt Rynold Timothy 6-4, 6-2; Bharatram Balajee bt Vikram Naidu Bangalore Srinivas 6-4, 6-3; 4-Elwin Antony bt Sagar Ahuja 6-1, 6-1; 3-Ajai Selvaraj bt Murtaza Lohani 6-0, 6-0; Manpreet Singh Chawla bt Alok Aradhya 6-3, 6-4.</p>
<p>Davis Cupper Vishnu Vardhan will be the cynosure when the Toyota $10,000 ITF Open tennis tournament begins here at the KSLTA courts on Monday.</p>.<p><br />Vishnu, seeded second here, won the Mysore Open on Saturday, defeating seventh seed N Sriram Balaji in the final. He had skipped the Mandya leg which was won by fellow Indian Saket Myneni.</p>.<p><br />Myneni, who had outplayed third seed Vijayant Malik in Mandya, will skip the Bangalore leg, with the 24-year-old scheduled to play in Germany.</p>.<p><br />On the eve of the tournament, Vishnu hoped he would be able to continue the good run. “I hope to carry on with the momentum and put up a good show here,” he said.<br /><br />Apart from Vishnu (ranked 357 in the world), a clutch of top Indian players in the draw — Malik (439), Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (443), Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (484) and N Sriram Balaji (542) — will put pressure on the top seed Taipei’s Chen Ti, ranked 309. <br /><br />Malik, who was finalist at Mandya and semifinalist at Mysore, is seeded third here and will be hoping to go all the way while Davis Cupper Karan Rastogi, who is nursing a sore shoulder, will skip the Bangalore leg. </p>.<p><br />Results (Final qualifying round, prefix denotes seeding): Krishik Divakar bt Shahbaaz Khan 6-3, 6-4; Aaditya Tewari bt 1-Sumeet Shinde 6-4, 6-4; Jatin Dahiya bt 2-Fariz Mohammed 6-7 (7-1), 6-4, 6-2; Yogesh Phogat bt Rynold Timothy 6-4, 6-2; Bharatram Balajee bt Vikram Naidu Bangalore Srinivas 6-4, 6-3; 4-Elwin Antony bt Sagar Ahuja 6-1, 6-1; 3-Ajai Selvaraj bt Murtaza Lohani 6-0, 6-0; Manpreet Singh Chawla bt Alok Aradhya 6-3, 6-4.</p>
