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by IANS

It was bad news for another India pair, Karan Rastogi and Sanam Singh, who lost
their first round doubles match to Rik De Voest of South Africa and Igor Kunitsyn of Russia 3-6, 3-6.

Wild card holder Rohan Bopanna lost to Wesley Moodie of South Africa 6-3, 6-7, 4-6 in singles first round.

Bopanna started the game well and he matched the South African by every
shot and won the first set. But luck was not in the Indian's favour as he lost
the second set in a tiebreaker and eventually went on to lose the third set as
well.

Kristian Pless of Denmark defeated German Dennis Gremelmayr 7-5,
7-5. Gremelmayr's compatriot Simon Greul defeated Yen Hsuntu of Chinese Taipei
7-6, 6-3.

Ramon Delgado of Paraguay had an easy win over Italian Davide Sanguinette of 6-3, 2-1. The Italian retired after hurting himself in the second
set.