Easy for top seeds

Easy for top seeds
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 9: All seeded players with the exception of three in Girls U-18, sailed into the second round of DSCL Open National tennis championship here on Monday.

In the men's section, Vishal Uppal, Sandeep Kirtane, Nitin Kirtane and Sunil Kumar, had easy first round matches.

Third seed Vishal gave a 6-1, 6-4 drubbing to former Davis Cup player Asif Ismail in a match that lasted just over an hour. Ismail looked very uneasy against fast and accurate service of his opponent throughtout the match.

Another Davis Cupper Sandeep Kirtane, seeded-fourth here, hardly raised any sweat in his 6-0, 6-0 white-wash in 50 minutes of lucky loser Uday Kumar Reddy.

Fifth-seed Nitin cruised to a comfortable 6-2, 6-3 victory over Anand Radhakrishna. The match lasted one hour 20 minutes.

In the women's section, Aarthi Venkatraman and Rushmi Chakravorthi moved into the second round with easy victories.

Seeded second, Rushmi drubbed Isha Chopra 4-0, 4-0, 4-1 in 45 minutes, while fifth-seed Aarthi defeated Jasleen Randhawa 4-2, 4-0, 4-1 in a match lasting one hour and 10 minutes.

The women's game (seniors) is being used as a `guineapig' for an `Alternative Scoring System' experiment.