Gajjar, Sipaeya in second round

Eighth seed Rohan Gajjar and former Asian junior champion Sunil Kumar Sipaeya moved into the second round of the ITF men's Satellite tournament in Delhi on Monday.

Gajjar packed off wild card compatriot Parantap Chaturvedi 6-1, 6-4 while Sipaeya ousted Israel's Eliran Dooyev 6-4, 6-3 in first round matches of the circuit's third leg.

Fourth seed Indonesian Prima Simpatiaji overcame a first-set deficit to defeat Richard Crabtree of Great Britain 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.

Takeshi Itoh of Japan too came through a three-setter to edge out Tomer Suissa of Israel 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in another tie.

The seeded players launch their campaign tomorrow.

Prakash Amritraj, who won the second leg at Chandigarh, has been top seeded while the winner of first leg in Mumbai, Daniel Kiernan of Great Britain is seeded two.

Vijay Kannan, Simpatiaji, Mustafa Ghouse, Vinod Sridhar, Febi Widhiyanto (Indonesia), and Rohan Gajjar are seeded three to eight in that order.