Bhambri top seed at Solaris ITF tournament

If all the seeds go through,Bhambri will play German eighth seed Richard Becker,while third seed Vishnu Vardhan will clash against seventh seed Rohan Gajjar in the top half of the draw. In the bottom half,sixth seed VM Ranjeet will meet fifth seed Vijayant Malik,while fourth seed Karan Rastogi will face second seed Junn Mitsuhashi of Japan.

In the final round of qualifiers on Sunday,six Indians — Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan,Aditya Madkekar,Sunil Kumar Sipaeya,N Sriram Balaji, Shahbaaz Khan and Kunal Anand — made it to the main draw alongside Jason Jung of the USA and Weerapat Doakmaiklee of Thailand.

Doakmailklee beat Elwin Antony 3-6,6-2,6-1,while Kunal came back from a set down to beat Rajat Maheshwari 4-6,6-2,6-2. In a match involving two veterans,Aditya Madkekar edged out Pune’s Nitin Kirtane 7-5,6-4. Sriram Balaji outplayed another Pune player Adwait Sadwilkar,beating him 6-2,6-1.