MUMBAI, MAY 25: Wild card Manoj Mahadevan toyed with Alexandre Sikanov (Rus), who was playing like a 12-year-old attending his first summer coaching camp, in the ITF Men's Satellite second-leg tennis tournament today.Mahadevan dropped just nine points on serve in the match that lasted 45 minutes and sent the fifth seed out 6-0, 6-1 in the first round at the G A Ranade Tennis Centre.A good day for young Indians marked Vijay Kannan's triumph over Nitin Kirtane, who had beaten the former in the National Hardcourt final, in an hour and 45 minutes. The match, not the most pleasant for Kirtane who needed an ice pack on his head to counter the humidity, would have lasted longer than the 6-4, 7-5 scoreline.Up 4-2 and one break of serve in the second set, Kannan had the match seemingly under control. More so, when it seemed that the heat would take its toll on the National champion. At 4-3, Kirtane took the break and it worked.Kirtane broke back, pulled ahead 5-4, and had two set points. A deep serve and abackhand crosscourt saved Kannan from losing the set.The procedure repeated, Kirtane had three game points, lost all three, and dropped serve. Kannan needed only that much space to close in the match.Top seed Prahlad Srinath, third seed Syed Fazaluddin, seventh seed Sandeep Kirtane and Harsh Mankad were among others to advance.ResultsMen's singles (first round): Ashley Ford (Aus) bt Anant Sitaram (Ind) 6-1, 6-2; Artem Derepasko (Rus) bt Steven Bourke (Aus) 6-1, 6-1; Syed Fazaluddin (Ind) bt Syed Nasir Ali Sherazi (Pak) 6-1, 6-3; Manoj Mahadevan (Ind) bt Alexandre Sikanov (Rus) 6-0, 6-1; Sandeep Kirtane (Ind) bt Le Minh (US) 6-3, 6-3; Rohan Bopanna (Ind) bt Sanzaruz Zaman (Ind) 6-3, 7-5; Anton Kokurin (Uzb) bt Jay Udwadia (US) 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; Vijay Kannan (Ind) bt Nitin Kirtane (Ind) 6-4, 7-5; Ravikiran Bhat (Ind) bt Dipesh Rao (Ind) 6-2, 6-1; Harsh Mankad (Ind) bt Andrei Youznyi (Rus) 6-2, 6-2; Prahlad Srinath (Ind) bt Vasudeva Reddy (Ind) 6-1, 6-2; Anjan Viplav (Ind) bt ShivashankarKambargimath (Ind) 6-3, 6-4.
