Ramkumar beats Vishnu in Chennai ITF

Young Ramkumar Ramanathan warded off a stiff challenge from experienced campaigner Vishnu Vararadan before eking out a 7-5 7-6(1) win in the first round of the USD 10,000 ITF Men's Futures tournament here today.
All top eight seeds have cleared the first round hurdle. Following are the results of matches held today:
SINGLES:
Ramkumar RAMANATHAN (IND) bt Vishnu VARDHAN (IND) 7-5 7-6(1) ; Enrique LOPEZ-PEREZ (ESP) bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) 6-2 6-3 ; Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt Giorgio PORTALURI (ITA) 6-2 7-6(1) ; N.Sriram BALAJI (IND) bt Lucas RENARD (SWE) 7-6(5) 6-3; Ronak MANUJA (IND) bt Chandril SOOD (IND) 7-6(5) 4-6 6-4 ; Vincent VAN DEN HONERT (NED) bt Vignesh VEERABHADRAN (IND) 6-3 6-3 ; Sergey SHIPILOV (UZB) bt Abhijeet TIWARI (IND) 6-2 6-4, Vignesh PERANAMALLUR (IND) bt Suraj R PRABODH (IND) 6-1 6-4 ; Ronit Singh BISHT (IND) bt Vinayak Sharma KAZA (IND) 5-7 7-6(8) 7-5 ; Sanam SINGH (IND) bt Akash WAGH (IND) 6-3 6-3 and Sarvar IKRAMOV (UZB) bt Shotaro GOTO (JPN) 6-7(3) 6-3 6-3 and DOUBLES: Jannis LINIGER (SUI) / N. Vijay Sundar PRASHANTH (IND) bt Giorgio PORTALURI (ITA) / Lucas RENARD 6-1 7-6(5); Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) / Ramkumar bt Mohit Mayur JAYAPRAKASH (IND) / Sasi Kumar (IND) 6-4 7-6(1) ; Jatin DAHIYA (IND) / Vijayant MALIK (IND) bt Andre GASPAR MURTA (POR) / Andrew (CAN) 6-3 6-3 .