Nitin Kirtne lone Indian hope

BANGALORE, JANUARY 17: Nitin Kirtane put his experience to good use to get the better of an inexperienced Vishal Uppal and advance to the second round of the Century Club-Wearhouse ITF Futures men’s tennis tournament at the Club courts on Monday. Nitin, with a 6-4, 6-4 win, was the lone Indian on the day to enter the pre-quarterfinals of this US $10,000 event.

Results (1st round) Singles: Viktor Bruthans (Svk) bt Sandeep Kirtane (Ind) 6-4 6-3; Nitin Kirtane (Ind) bt Vishal Uppal (Ind) 6-4 6-4; Andy Ram (Isr) bt Vinod Sridhar (Ind) 6-3 6-1; Maclagan Miles (Gbr) bt Mazur Dimitri (Uzb) 6-0 6-4; Kobi Ziv (Isr) bt Vijay Kannan (Ind) 6-4 6-4.

Doubles: Ravikiran Bhat/ Nirmit Shetty (Ind) bt Maritus Kanellos (Aut)/ Arne Kreitz (Ger) 2-6 6-4 7-6 (7-4); Dennis Golovanov/ Ivanov Smolenske (Rus) bt Sander Groen (Ned)/ Justin Layne (Gbr) 6-1 6-4; Nitin Kirtane/ Sandeep Kirtane (Ind) bt Jaidev Punjabi/ Amogha Shivram (Ind) 6-1 6-1; Mustafa Ghouse/ Vishal Uppal (Ind) bt Andrei Youzhny (Rus)/ Radim Ziiko(Cze) 6-2 2-6 6-3; Prahlad Srinath/ Saurav Panja (Ind) bt Vijay Kannan/ Vinod Sridhar (Ind) 6-3 6-2; Andy Ram/ Nir Welgreen (Isr) bt Pramono Hendri/ Widhiyanto Febi (Ina) 7-5 6-4.