Mumbai: Fifth seed Carlos Moya of Spain lost to Argentine Juan Martin Del Porto 3-6, 2-6 in the singles first round of the inaugural Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Tournament on Tuesday.
Mahesh Bhupathi and his Croatian partner Mario Ancic had an easy start of the tournament as they thrashed the Indian pair of Christopher Marquis and Akash Wagh 6-0, 6-1 in the doubles first round.
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.
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