If he wins his match at the GA Ranade Tennis Centre on Tuesday, Sunil will play the winner of tomorrow's clash between Saurav Panja and Per Thornadtssor (Swe). Panja lost to Sunil in the Delhi semi-finals and revenge will be a motto. The Swede will be, well, different.

Top seed Prahlad Srinath and second seed Syed Fazaluddin return to competition tennis after injury-related lay-offs of over a month. But neither plays till Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the third leg of the $ 25,000 Circuit conducted by the Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association (MSLTA) has been shifted from Nagpur to Pune which will hold the secondleg as well at the Deccan Gymkhana with the Masters scheduled for Mumbai.

WHITE BADGE HONOUR: Fifteen candidates, including seven Indians, were awarded white badges after successfully completing an ITF Level II officiating examination which was conducted at the MSLTA from October 14-17. The seven Indians are Praveen Kumar, Abhishek Mukherjee, Sheetal Iyer, Saiket Roy, Birbal Wadhera, Reetu Sethi and Namrata Choudhary.

SEEDINGS (COUNTRY, RANKING IN PARENTHESIS)

1 Prahlad Srinath (Ind, 312), 2 Syed Fazaluddin (Ind, 418), 3 Radim Zitko (Cze, 464), 4 Per Thornadtsson (Swe, 495), 5 Tom Chicoine (US, 500), 6 Vinod Sridhar (Ind, 693), 7 Zoltan Boroczky (Hun, 730), 8 Zbynek Mlynarik (Aut, 768).

RESULTS (MEN'S SINGLES FINAL QUALIFYING ROUND

Thomas Messmer (Ger) bt Csaba Karda (Hun) 6-2, 6-0; Sanzaruz Zaman (Ind) bt John Rom (US) 7-5, 3-6, 6-4; Andrei Youzhny (Rus) bt Doug Abraham (USA) 6-4, 6-2; Narendran Ranganathan (Ind) bt Ciaran Moore (RSA) 7-5, 6-2; Kedar Tembe (Ind) bt Anton Roller(Svk) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4; Rohan Bopanna (Ind) bt Manoj Mahadevan (Ind) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Matthis Kempe-Bergman (Swe) bt Kunj Majumdar (US) 2-6, 7-5, 6-1; Kedar Shah (Ind) bt Velmurugan Annamalai (Ind) 6-3, 6-3.