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\"ITFBangalore<\/strong>: Fourth seed Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan <\/a>had to battle hard to beat a defiant Sidharth Rawat 7-6 (6), 7-5 in two sets and moved into the pre-quarter-finals of the $10,000 Toyota ITF Open men’s tennis tournament here Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In a match marked by absorbing rallies, neither player gave any quarter to each other and kept up a steady pace while hitting strong ground strokes.<\/p>\n

Jeevan made a tentative start in the first set and came under pressure a couple of times, but survived a break point in the fourth and sixth games before holding serve.<\/p>\n

The two players held the serve till six-all and the set spilled into a tie-breaker. <\/p>\n

Rawat led 4-2 in the before Jeevan made it four-all and then six-all. Jeevan clinched the issue with Rawat hitting wide and later netting a short return.<\/p>\n

In the second set, Rawat called the shots early and broke in the second game for a 3-0 lead at which point Jeevan also needed a medical attention for blisters on the right foot.<\/p>\n

Trailing 1-4, Jeevan made a valiant effort and kept his consistent returns in and took three games in a row with a break of serve in the seventh for four-all.<\/p>\n

Thereafter, it was Jeevan all the way as he broke Rawat again in the 11th game and served out the set for the match.<\/p>\n

Jeeven, the 24-year-old from Tamil Nadu who is now based in Germany, said: “I am happy with the victory and Rawat is a tough opponent. I kept the intensity and made him earn every point, but I am still figuring out how to play better in this high altitude condition where balls come off much faster also.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, second seed Vishnu Vardhan had an easy passage to the second round beating Bharatram Balajee 6-1, 6-2, while the sixth seed and Mysore Open finalist N. Sriram Balaji ousted Elwin Antony 6-3, 7-6(1).<\/p>\n

The results (prefix indicates seeding, Indian unless mentioned):
Zach Itzstein (AUS) bt Kenny Bun (CAM) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; Ashwin Vijayragavan bt Gavin Van Peperzeel (AUS) 6-3, 6-4; Ajai Selvaraj bt Vishwanath Savadi 6-2, 6-3; Tejas Chaukulkar bt Manpreet Singh Chawla 6-2, 6-0; 4-Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Sidharth Rawat 7-6 (6), 7-5; 5-Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 7-5, 6-3; 6-N Sriram Balaji bt Elwin Antony 6-3, 7-6 (1); Venkat Iyer bt Sagar Manjanna 6-3, 6-3; Jatin Dahiya bt Saurabh Patil 6-3, 6-1; 2-Vishnu Vardhan bt Bharatram Balajee 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Doubles (first round): Kunal Anand \/ Ajai Selvaraj bt Zach Itzstein (AUS) \/ Francesco Vilardo (ITA) 2-6, 6-2, 10-7; Scott Puodziunas (AUS) \/ Gavin Van Peperzeel (AUS) bt Shahbaaz Khan \/ Sumeet Shinde 6-7 (5), 6-4, 10-5.<\/p>\n

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