Wild card Sumit Nagal received off to a powerful begin by beating Yasutaka Uchiyama of Japan 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4 within the first spherical of the PMR Open $130,000 Challenger tennis event on the Balewadi Stadium on Tuesday.

In the pre-quarterfinals, Sumit will play qualifier Dominik Palan of Czech Republic who beat sixth seed Dalibor Svrcina 6-4, 7-6(4).

Prajnesh Gunneswaran went right down to high seed James Duckworth, after successful the primary set. 

Wild card Mukund Sasikumar bumped into the champion of the final two Challengers in Chennai and Bengaluru, third seed Max Purcell of Australia, and managed to win the primary set.

The different wild card Arjun Kadhe was crushed in straight units by Maximilian Neuchrist of Austia.

The outcomes: First spherical: James Duckworth (Aus) bt Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-7(5), 6-2, 6-3; Maximilian Neuchrist (Aut) bt Arjun Kadhe 6-2, 7-5; Max Purcell bt Mukund Sasikumar 3-6, 6-3, 6-0; Dimitar Kuzmanov (Bul) bt Makoto Ochi (Jpn) 5-7, 7-6(5), 6-2; Dane Sweeny (Aus) bt Jay Clarke (GBR) 6-0, 6-2; Francesco Maestrelli (Ita) bt Marc Polmans (Aus) 1-6, 6-1, 6-2; Rio Noguchi (Jpn) bt Marek Gengel (Cze) 4-6, 6-2, 7-6(1); Nikola Milojevic (Srb) bt Frederico Ferreira Silva (Por) 6-7(1), 7-6(5), 6-4; Lorenzo Giustino (Ita) bt Nam Hoang Ly (Vie) 6-1, 6-1; Luca Nardi (Ita) bt Benjamin Lock (Zim) 6-1, 7-5; Dominik Palan (Cze) bt Dalibor Svrcina (Cze) 6-4, 7-6(4); Sumit Nagal bt Yasutaka Uchiyama (Jpn) 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4; Hamad Medjedovic (Srb) bt Hiroki Moriya (Jpn) 6-3, 6-4.