Kannan moves ahead

Chennai, March 1: Top seed and Davis Cup reserve Vijay Kannan of Delhi displayed steely nerves to dispose off a fighting Shailesh Dhoble of Maharashtra 5-7, 6-2, 7-67-4 to move into the second round of the Gold Flake Aces Tour men8217;s tennis championship second leg here today.

In the other men8217;s singles first round matches, fourth seed Nitin Kirtane, eighth seed Vijendra Laad both Maharashtra, fifth seed Saurav Panja Bengal, seventh seed Vasudeva Reddy Andhra Pradesh, Jagdish Tanwar Rajasthan and local star Manoj Mahadevan won.

VN Prem Prakash, CV Anand, P Vishal, R Narendran, Manoj Kumar, Meenkashi Sundaram, KG Ramesh and Md Ayser Arafat were the qualifiers.

Results Men8217;s singles 1st round: Jagdish Tanwar Raj bt Rohan Bopanna Kar 6-0, 7-5; Manoj Mahadevan TN bt Anup Minda Mah 6-2, 6-2; Vasudeva Reddy AP bt Rishi Sridhar TN 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Saurav Panja Ben bt Rajkumar Gopalan TN 2-6, 6-3, 6-3; Vijendra Laad Mah bt Udayakumar Reddy TN 6-2, 6-3; Nitin Kirtane Mah bt AvinashArun TN 6-3, 6-3; Vijay Kannan Delhi bt Shailesh Dhoble Mah 5-7, 6-2, 7-67-4.