INDIANAPOLIS: N Sriram Balaji of India, combining with Japanese Hiroki Moriya, outpointed Chun-Hsin Tseng and Tung-Lin Wu of Chinese Taipei in straight sets 6-4, 6-1 in the doubles first round match in the $ 52, 080 Istanbul Challenger Ted Open, Turkey .
The Indo-Japanese pair next meet Jamie Cerretani of America and Fabian Fallert of Germany who accounted for French pair of Hugo Grener and Alexandre Muller 6-1, 7-5
ANIRUDH LOSES: Anirudh Chandrasekhar of India and Davide Pozzi of Italy were beaten by Mats Hermans and Glenn Smits of Netherlands 6-1, 6-3 in the doubles first round match in the €66, 640 Open Blot Rennes, France.