New Delhi, Oct. 5 -- Manish Sureshkumar and Vaidehee Chaudhari, the top seeds in the men's and women's singles draws, respectively, kicked off their campaigns with comfortable straight-sets wins at the 31st Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship at the DLTA Complex on Monday.
Sureshkumar, the defending champion, needed just 61 minutes to defeat Prasad Ingale 6-1, 6-2, while Chaudhari, a two-time former champion who missed last year's edition due to injury,dropped just one game in a 6-0, 6-1 win over Riya Sachdeva in 56 minutes.
"It was a good start. I just tried to be solid because it was the first match," Sureshkumar said after his win.
"I tried to put as many balls on the court, get the rhythm. Today's match was more of being solid ...