CHANDIGARH: Mukund Sasikumar of India defeated alternate Robert Galloway of USA in straight sets 6-2, 6-4 in the first qualifying round of the $ 52, 080 Knoxville Challenger, USA.
In another first round qualifying match Aidan McHugh of Great Britain defeated alternate Arjun Kadhe 6-3 7-6 (0).
Arjun Kadhe is pairing with Ruan Roelofse of South Africa and they face Malek Jaziri of Tunisia and Blaz Rola of Slovakia in the doubles first round encounter.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran of India, ranked 184th, has been drawn to meet Mikael of Denmark in the singles first round of the main draw.
In the € 66, 640 Peugeot Slovak Open, Bratislava, Indian Ramkumar Ramanathan will start his singles campaign with a first round match against 114th ranked Alex Molcan of Slovakia.
Ramkumar and Sergio Martos Gomes of Spain face Wild Cards Kristof Minank and Lukas Palovic of Slovakia in the doubles first round fixture.
N Sriram Balaji and Divij Sharan of India are pitted against third seed David Pel and Sem Verbeek of Netherlands in the doubles first round match.