Prakash Amritraj

New Delhi: Prakash Amritraj overwhelmed French sixth seed Nicolas Tourte 6-2, 6-3 to enter the second round of the $50,000 Challenger Series tournament in Granby, Canada.

According to information received here, Prakash, who reached the semi-finals of the Comerica Challenger at California last week, will next take on Canadian qualifier Milan Pokrajac in the hard court event.

Meanwhile, at the $25,000 Nottingham Challenger, sixth seed Rohan Bopanna beat British wildcard David Rice 6-4, 6-1 to enter the second round. Bopanna will now be up against German Lars Burgsmuller.

The Indian made a good start to his doubles campaign as well and, teaming up with Pakistani Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi beat Xavier Audouy (France) and Simon Rea (New Zealand) 7-6 (4), 6-2 in the first round. (PTI)