Unseeded Ramkumar Ramanathan beats top seeded Elias Ymer of Sweden 5-7, 6-1,6-4 in match that lasted for 1 hour and 52 minutes. The 30-year-old from Chennai exacted revenge for his Davis Cup loss against the top seeded Ymer. In the matches featuring other Indians, sixth seeded Russian Ilia Simakin took 1 hour 15 minutes to get past India’s number two ranked player Mukund Sasikumar. Former winner of the Maha Open ATP Tour and currently ranked 35 in the world, Jiri Vesely, who is making a comeback, proved strong for local wildcard Siddhant Banthia winning 6-2,. 6-3. Russian Petr Bar Biryukov upset second seeded Oleksandr Ovcharenko of Ukraine 6- 3, 7-6(6), while Japanese Hiroki Moriya ousted fifth seeded Jacopo Berrettini of Italy 7-5, 6 -3.
