Yuki, Ramkumar progress in Australian Open qualifiers

Melbourne Jan 10 (IANS) India s top singles players Yuki Bhambri and Ramkumar Ramanathan bounced back in style to win their respective matches at the Australian Open qualifiers on Wednesday.

Bhambri seeded 15th overcame Canada s Bradely Schuner 1-6 6-3 6-4 in the opening round and will next take on Spain s Carlos Taberner.

Ramkumar seeded 28th edged out American Bradley Klahn 6-7(8) 7-6(3) 6-2 to set up a second round clash against French man Gleb Sakharov.

However it was the end of the road for Sumit Nagal and Prajnesh Gunneswaran.

Nagal who recently played his maiden ATP World Tour event in Pune went down fighting 6-7(5) 6-3 3-6 to Italy s Alessandro Giannessi while Prajnesh lost 6-1 1-6 2-6 to Germany s Tobias Kamke.

--IANS
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