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Somdev Devvarman survived a scare from wild card Denes Lukacs while Sanam Singh pulled off an upset win over sixth seed Grega Zemlja to make a stupendous start to the ATP Challenger event in Charlottesville in the United States.
Third seed Somdev had to dig deep to prevail over his Hungarian opponent 6-3 2-6 7-5 in his opening clash of the USD 50,000 hard court event.
Sanam,who entered the event as a qualifier,claimed the scalp of sixth seed Slovakian with a 6-2 5-7 6-4 win in his first round match.
Meanwhile,top seeded pair of Harsh Mankad and Treat Conard Huey suffered a shock first round defeat at the hands of local wild card duo of Cory Parr and Todd Paul.
The Indo-Philippine pair lost 6-7(1) 5-7 in a tough match.
In the Eckental Challenger event in Germany,Rohan Bopanna and his partner Rameez Junaid,seeded third,went down fighting against Austrian pair of Martin Fischer and Philipp Oswald.
The Indo-Australian pair lost 5-7 6-3 11-13 in their opening round of the euro 30,000 event. They got no point but earned 100 euros each.
