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MUMBAI, Oct 10: Rahul Gandhi, Basapparav K and Saurav Panja qualified for the $6250 State Bank of India ITF Satellite tennis tournament at the Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association courts today.
The three qualifiers joined the 16 direct entries and four wild cards in the main draw of the tournament set to commence on Monday. Gandhi beat Andrew Ford (GBR) 6-2, 6-0 while Panja scored over Kan Bargimath (Ind) who conceded when trailing 3-6, 5-5. K Basapparav went through when Barth George (USA) retired while trailing at 3-6.
Meanwhile, Vishaal Uppal of Delhi was given a wild card into the main draw instead of Mustafa Ghouse, who got a wild card to play the qualifiers. Ghouse made the second round with a 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) win over Rohan Bopanna today. The other wild cards are Vasudeva Reddy, Vinod Sridhar and Ravi Kiran Bhat.
Due to the withdrawal of four players from the main draw, the number of qualifiers have been increased from eight to 12 to complete the draw of 32.Results (qualifying final round):Rahul Gandhi (Ind, TN) bt Andrew Ford (GBR) 6-2, 6-0; Bem Guzdelak (GBR) bt Kamala Kannan (Ind, TN) 6-2, 5-7, 6-3; Saurav Panja (Ind, WB) bt Kan Bargimath (Ind) 6-3, 5-5 (conceded); K Basapparav (Ind, Kar) bt Barth George (USA) 6-3, retired.
First round): Mohammed Yaseer A (Ind, AP) bt Ali Intichab (Ind, Mah) 6-2, 6-0; P Sreenivasan (Ind, Kar) bt Choudepalli DA (Ind, Kar) 6-3, 6-4; Any Fahlke (Ger) bt Sunderesh (Ind, Kar) 6-1, 6-2; Radhakrishnan A (Ind) bt Sunderaraju Ganesh (Ind, TN) 6-4, 7-5; Arun Avinash (Ind, TN) bt Kedar Shah (Ind, Mah) 6-2, 6-2; S Zaman (Ind, WB) bt Rishi Sridhar (Ind, TN) 6-4, 6-1; Mustafa Ghouse (Ind, Mah) bt Rohan Bopanna (Ind, Mah) 6-4, 7-6 (7-3).
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