Top billing for Messori

The top seed in the fray is 329th ranked Fillippo Messori of Italy followed by Lee Martin of USA ranked 334. Others players within 400 mark on the ATP ladder to feature here are Boris Borgula (Slovakia, 355), Prahlad Srinath (India, 354), Michel Kratochvil (Switzerland, 358), Luke Mulligan (Great Britain, 375) and Amir Haddad(Israel, 381).

The local flavour to this international event cannot be missed. Besides the Davis Cup stars Srinath and Syed Fazaluddin, who have gained direct entry to the main draw, there are four wild card entrants — Vishal Uppal, Vinod Sridhar, Harsh Mankad and Vijay Kannan.

But the local player to put your money will be Srinath. The fourth seed, who reached the quarter-final here at the ATP Challenger, is comfortable with the conditions here and could be a potential outside favourite for the event.QUALIFYING RESULTS:

Artem Derepasko bt Hubert Suppan 4-6, 6-1, 7-5; Scot Barren bt Jun Kato 6-1, 3-6, 6-3; James Auckland bt Anand Radhakrishnan 7-5, 6-4; Kascak Filip bt Andrei Youznyi 6-2, 6-4; Todd Meringoff bt Sunu Thomas 6-1, 6-4; Andrea Serra bt Anton Kokurin 6-3, 6-4; Le Minh bt Ivo Karlovic 1-6, 6-1, 6-3; Josep Nesticky bt Alan Mackin 7-6. 7-6; Simon Larose bt Rohan Bopanna 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Iain Bates bt Mustafa Ghouse 6-2, 6-3; Saurav Panja bt Sreenivasan P K 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Nitin Kirtane btMark Thompson 6-4, 3-6, 6-0; Luben Pampoulov bt Jernej Karner 7-5, 7-6; Maatta Mikael bt Igor Brukner 6-4, 6-3; Aisam Qureshi bt Ari Strasberg 7-5, 6-3; Sandeep Kirtane bt Paul Maggs 6-3, 6-4.