Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
Chennai,Somdev Devvarman and Saketh Myneni registered easy wins to move to the second round of the ATP Chennai Open qualifying event.
Sixth seed Devvarman defeated Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-2 6-3, avenging his Pune Challenger defeat against the local lad. Fifth seed Myneni saw off the challenge of Sanam Singh 6-2 6-4. Also moving to the next round was N Sriram Balaji, who knocked out seventh seed Hans Podlipnik-Castillo 6-2 6-4.
However, the campaigns of Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Prajnesh Gunneswaran were over in the first round itself.
Nedunchezhiyan lost to second-seeded Briton James Ward 6-4 6-3 and Gunneswaran lost 6-3 6-0 to eighth seed Jozef Kovalik.
Meanwhile, Ramkumar Ramananthan was pitted against Spaniard Daniel Gimeno Traver.
