Somdev Devvarman faces Yen-Hsun Lu in Chennai Open opener

India's best hope and wild card entrant Somdev Devvarman will go up against sixth seeded Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei in the first round of the singles draw of the ATP Aircel Chennai Open tennis tournament which commences here on Monday

Chennai: India's best hope and wild card entrant Somdev Devvarman will go up against sixth seeded Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei in the first round of the singles draw of the ATP Aircel Chennai Open tennis tournament which commences here on Monday.


Somdev Devvarman 

Last year's finalist Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France takes on eighth seeded Gilles Lux Muller (Luxembourg) in the first round while the top four seeds, defending champion Stan Wawrinka, Felicano Lopez, Roberto Bautista Agut and David Goffin received first round byes.

The other Indian wild card entry Ramkumar Ramanathan faces Japanese Tatsuma Ito in the first round as per the draw that was held here Saturday.

In the doubles competition, Leander Paes and South African Raven Klaasen, who were drawn to play Andreas Haider-Maurer and Lukas Lacko in the first round, received top billing ahead of the Dutch-German combination of Robin Haase and Andre Begemann.

Paes, Bhupathi face-off
The draw set up an interesting second round match-up between the Paes-Klaasen duo and wild card entry Mahesh Bhupathi and Saketh Myneni should the Indian pair win their first round clash against Colombians Alejandro Felia and Alejandro Gonzalez.

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