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\"chenniChennai: Israel’s Dudi Sela beat Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Damir Dzumhur 6-2, 6-2 in the men’s singles first round of the Chennai Open<\/a> tennis tournament here on Monday.<\/p>\n

The 96th rank Sela was dominant from the beginning and easily overpowered his 77th ranked opponent.<\/p>\n

Russian Daniil Medvedev, ranked 99th, was equally comfortable against Thiago Monteiro, winning 6-3,6-3, against the Brazilian who is ranked 17 rungs above him.<\/p>\n

Steve Darcis of Belgium defeated Croatia’s Nikola Mektic 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the second round. The 86th ranked Darcis proved too much for the 74th rank Mektic.<\/p>\n

Jozef Kovalik also maintained the day’s tempo, as the 117th placed Slovakian defeated 81st ranked Portuguese Gastao Elias 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Also read: Asian Games 2010 champion Somdev Devvarman announces his retirement from pro tennis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the men’s doubles section, Argentine Renzo Olivo and Austrian Jurgen Melzer defeated Chinese Taipei’s Yen-Hsun Lu and German Andre Begemann 4-6, 7-6 (3), 11-9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The 96th rank Sela was dominant from the beginning and easily overpowered his 77th ranked opponent.<\/p>\n

Russian Daniil Medvedev, ranked 99th, was equally comfortable against Thiago Monteiro, winning 6-3,6-3, against the Brazilian who is ranked 17 rungs above him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11748,20089,20090,466,12894],"class_list":["post-31375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis","tag-chennai-open","tag-dudi-sela","tag-herzegovinas-damir-dzumhur","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-tennis-news"],"yoast_head":"\nDudi Sela wins in Chennai Open - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News & Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis & Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31375\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dudi Sela wins in Chennai Open - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News & Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis & Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chennai: Israel's Dudi Sela beat Bosnia-Herzegovina's Damir Dzumhur 6-2, 6-2 in the men's singles first round of the Chennai Open tennis tournament here on Monday. 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