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NT Bureau
Chennai, July 25:

        Top-seed Aqeel Khan of Pakistan had no trouble booking a second round berth in the singles event of the GNC-KCG Verghese ITF Futures tennis tournament at the Gandhinagar Club courts here yesterday.

        The Pakistan number two quelled the challenge of Taipei's Tzu-Yang Lin 6-3, 6-3.

        Results — Men's singles (round one): Aqeel Khan (Pak-X1) bt Tzu-Yang (Tpe) 6-3, 6-3; Siddharth Alapati (Ind) bt Kaushik Raju (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Guilherme (Braz) bt Vishnu Vardhan (Ind) 6-4, 6-4; Akash Wagh (Ind) bt Jaco T Mathew (Ind) 7-6 (2), 6-3; P C Vignesh (Ind) bt Vivek Shokeen (Ind) 6-4, 7-6 (5); Ajay Selvaraj (Ind) bt Vijay Sundar Prashanth (Ind) 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5).

        Tatsuma Ita (Japan) bt Rohan Gajjar (Ind) 6-3, 6-3; Kiran Nandakumar (Ind) bt Kinshuk Sharma (Ind) 6-0, 6-3; Hsin-Han (Tpe) bt Yannick Nelord (Ind) 6-0, 6-4; Arata (Japan) bt Ashutosh (Ind) 6-4, 7-6 (5); Katsushi (Japan) bt Markus (Ger) 6-4, 6-1; Vijayant (Ind) bt P Ravishankar (Ind) 6-1, 6-2; Vijay Kannan (Ind) bt Cyril Hervieux (Fra) 6-2, 6-4.