Siddharth Vishwakarma beat Dan Added for a berth in the primary draw of the Delhi Open Challenger tennis event on Monday.| Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan

Coleman Wong proved a tough nut to crack for S. Mukund because the 17-year-old from Hong Kong transformed a second match level for a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 victory within the first spherical of the Dafa News $82,000 Delhi Open Challenger tennis event on the DLTA Complex on Monday.

After having given a walkover within the quarterfinals on Friday within the Pune Challenger owing to meals poisoning, Mukund had recovered to compete exhausting although the modified situations hampered his sport.

From not having confronted a single break level in two matches within the final Challenger, Mukund was discovering it exhausting to play fluently, particularly within the tremendous gradual situations of the centre courtroom. 

The 237th-ranked Wong performed an intense athletic sport, discovering options to all of the queries that Mukund posed, to probably give himself an opportunity to face the champion of the final Challenger Valentin Vacherot within the pre-quarterfinals.

Earlier, one other wild card entrant Karan Singh performed nicely to win the primary set, however was unable to deal with the ferocious combat again by Federico Gaio of Italy and pale away.

The silver lining was the way in which National champion Siddharth Vishwakarma asserted his high-quality sport to earn a berth in the primary draw, beating Dan Added of France 7-6(4), 4-6, 7-6(3).

Siddharth was rewarded for his high quality sport with a primary spherical towards one other qualifier Samuel Ruggeri of Italy.

The outcomes: Singles (first spherical): Yuta Shimizu (Jpn) bt Maxime Janvier (Fra) 6-3, 6-1; Federico Gaio (Ita) bt Karan Singh 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Goncalo Oliveira (Por) bt Yu Hsiou Hsu (Tpe) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4; Coleman Wong (Hkg) bt S Mukund 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.