<p>Germany’s Torsten Wietsoka stunned fourth-seeded Indian Vijay Sundar Prashant in the opening round of the ITF Belgaum Open tennis tournament at the VTU courts here on Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Torsten, who had to make it through two rounds of qualifying before making it to the main draw, posted a hard-fought 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) win over Vijay to march into the second round. <br /><br />Portugal’s Andre Gasper scored an impressive 6-1, 6-1 win over India’s Rajat Maheshwari.<br /><br />While Vijay was sent packing, seventh seed Ashwin Vijayraghavan came close to emmulating his compatriot before standing his ground to overcome wild card Lakshit Sood in his opening match.<br /><br />Results (first round, Prefix denotes seeding, Indians unless mentioned): Singles: Luca Margaroli (Sui) bt Vinod Gowda 6-2, 6-1; Colin Van Beem (Ned) bt 5-Sergei Krotiouk 6-2, 6-3; 7-Ashwin Vijayaraghavan bt Lakshit Sood 6-7 (6-8), 6-1, 7-5; 6-Michael Shabaz (US) bt William Kendall (US) 6-1, 6-1; Andre Gasper (Por) bt Rajat Maheshwari 6-1, 6-1; Torsten Wietsoka (Ger) bt 4-Vijay Sundar Prashant 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).<br /><br />Doubles: 3-Sriram Balaji/ Vignesh PC bt Mohit Mayur/ Ramkumar Ramanthan 2-6, 7-5, 10-3; 4-Theodoros Angelinos (Gre)/ Sanam Singh (Ind) bt Sagar Ahuja/ Saurabh Patil 3-1 (retd); Kunal Anand/ Ronak Manuja bt Chinmay Pradhan/ Nishit Vakil 6-0, 6-2; Rupesh Roy/ Vivek Shokeen bt Ajai Selvaraj/ Ashwin Vijayraghavan 6-4, 6-3; Jatin Dahiya/ Shabaz Khan bt Jorean Benard/ Colin Van Beem (Ned) 6-4, 2-6, 10-8; 2-Sergei Krotiok (Rus)/ Luca Margaroli (Sui) bt Neeraj Elangovan/ Fariz Mohammed 6-4, 6-2.<br /></p>
<p>Germany’s Torsten Wietsoka stunned fourth-seeded Indian Vijay Sundar Prashant in the opening round of the ITF Belgaum Open tennis tournament at the VTU courts here on Monday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Torsten, who had to make it through two rounds of qualifying before making it to the main draw, posted a hard-fought 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) win over Vijay to march into the second round. <br /><br />Portugal’s Andre Gasper scored an impressive 6-1, 6-1 win over India’s Rajat Maheshwari.<br /><br />While Vijay was sent packing, seventh seed Ashwin Vijayraghavan came close to emmulating his compatriot before standing his ground to overcome wild card Lakshit Sood in his opening match.<br /><br />Results (first round, Prefix denotes seeding, Indians unless mentioned): Singles: Luca Margaroli (Sui) bt Vinod Gowda 6-2, 6-1; Colin Van Beem (Ned) bt 5-Sergei Krotiouk 6-2, 6-3; 7-Ashwin Vijayaraghavan bt Lakshit Sood 6-7 (6-8), 6-1, 7-5; 6-Michael Shabaz (US) bt William Kendall (US) 6-1, 6-1; Andre Gasper (Por) bt Rajat Maheshwari 6-1, 6-1; Torsten Wietsoka (Ger) bt 4-Vijay Sundar Prashant 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).<br /><br />Doubles: 3-Sriram Balaji/ Vignesh PC bt Mohit Mayur/ Ramkumar Ramanthan 2-6, 7-5, 10-3; 4-Theodoros Angelinos (Gre)/ Sanam Singh (Ind) bt Sagar Ahuja/ Saurabh Patil 3-1 (retd); Kunal Anand/ Ronak Manuja bt Chinmay Pradhan/ Nishit Vakil 6-0, 6-2; Rupesh Roy/ Vivek Shokeen bt Ajai Selvaraj/ Ashwin Vijayraghavan 6-4, 6-3; Jatin Dahiya/ Shabaz Khan bt Jorean Benard/ Colin Van Beem (Ned) 6-4, 2-6, 10-8; 2-Sergei Krotiok (Rus)/ Luca Margaroli (Sui) bt Neeraj Elangovan/ Fariz Mohammed 6-4, 6-2.<br /></p>
