The Tamil Nadu player started promisingly and managed to win an energy-sapping first set against Maharashtra’s unseeded Shahbaaz Khan.
But thereafter Mahadevan clearly seemed to have ran out of steam and tamely lost the next two sets as Khan clinched a deserving 6-7(5), 6-1 and 6-2 win to book a place in the second round at the Bandra Gymkhana.
Top seed Ishaque Eqbal of West Bengal staved off a spirited fight from Kerala’s Suraj H to snatch a straight set 7-5 6-4 victory in his opening round encounter.
Punjab’s second seed Paramveer Singh Bajwa had a much easier time as he outplayed Maharashtra’s unseeded Nishant Mehta 6-1, 6-4 in another first round encounter.
Third seed Amarnath Arora and fourth seed Shivam Dalmia, both from Delhi, also won their first round encounters to progress to the next round.
Results: Men’s singles (1st round): 1-Ishaque Eqbal (WB) Vs Suraj H (KL) 7-5, 6-4; Raghav Jaisinghani (MP) bt Yeswanth Loganathan (TN) 6-3, 6-3; Gunjan Jadhav (MH) bt Shaik Umair (AP) 6-1, 6-4; 5-Mohammed Fahad (TN) bt Vivek Gautam (KA) 7-5, 6-4; 3-Amarnath Arora (DL) Vs Tarun Karra (TS) 7-6(3), 6-2; K Srinivas (AP) bt P Apuroop Reddy (TS) 2-6 6-4, 6-4; Munshaw Vaidik (GJ) bt Karan Lalchandani (MH) 6-1, 6-0; 8-Tejas Chaukulkar (MH) bt Macherla Theertha Shashank (TS) 6-4, 6-3; Shahbaaz Khan (MH) bt 7-Arjun Mahadevan (TN) 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-2; Praneet Kudale (MH) bt Akash Nandwal (MP) 7-6(10), 6-3; Yash Yadav (MP) Vs Maulin R Aghara (GJ) 6-4, 6-3; 4-Shivam Dalmia (DL) bt Rishabh Kalokhe (MH) 6-0, 6-1; 6-Bharath Nishok Kumaran (TN) bt Mohit Bahardwaj (DL) 6-0, 6-4; Rohan Bhatia (MH) bt Arthav Neema (MP) 6-3, 6-1; Atharva Sharma (MH) bt Shimon Shastri 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; 2-Paramveer Singh Bajwa (PB) bt Nishant Mehta (MH) 6-1, 6-4
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