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It was arsenic if Sumit Nagal had gone missing for the champion portion of the opening set. The India No.1 rapidly fell down 0-5 arsenic Britain’s Felix Gill punched supra his weight, hitting crisply from the baseline and coming up with good volleys erstwhile helium needed to successful their Chennai Open ATP Challenger contention astatine the SDAT tennis stadium.
The eighth effect Nagal swiftly turned things astir and stepped up his instrumentality crippled to contention to a 5-0 pb successful the 2nd acceptable earlier Gill could get himself connected the board.
After exchanging breaks aboriginal successful the decider, Nagal, coming into the tourney aft 2 losses successful the Davis Cup necktie against the Netherlands, ran distant a winner.
Sidharth Rawat joined his compatriot successful the round-of-16, with an upset 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 triumph implicit 5th effect Rio Noguchi of Japan. Sasikumar Mukund was the different Indian victor connected the time arsenic helium edged retired Nitin Kumar Sinha 7-5, 6-3.
The results (first round): Singles: Federico Agustin Gomez (Arg) bt Manish Sureshkumar (Ind) 6-1, 6-2; Oliver Crawford (GBr) bt Digvijaypratap Singh (Ind) 7-6(6), 3-6, 7-5; Ilia Simakin (Rus) bt Manas Dhamne (Ind) 6-3, 6-2; Sidharth Rawat (Ind) bt Rio Noguchi (Jpn) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Federico Ferreira Silva (Por) bt Karan Singh (Ind) 6-4, 6-4; Denis Yevseyev (Kaz) bt Florent Bax (Fra) 5-7, 6-4, 3-2 (retd.); Sumit Nagal (Ind) bt Felix Gill (GBr) 1-6, 6-1, 6-3; Duje Adjukovic (Srb) 6-4, 6-4; Petr Bar Biryukov (Rus) bt Ishaque Eqbal (Ind) 6-3, 6-4; Lorenzo Carboni (Ita) bt S.D. Prajwal Dev (Ind) 6-2 (retd.); Sasikumar Mukund (Ind) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha (Ind) 7-5, 6-3; Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) bt Aditya Vishal Balsekar (Ind) 6-0, 6-0.
