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Qualifier Apuroop Patlolla Reddy beat Zhuoyang Qiu of China 7-5, 6-1 in the first round of the $15,000 ITF Futures tennis tournament on Tuesday.

The results:

$15,000 ITF tournament, Nonthaburi, Thailand: First round: Karunuday Singh bt Yu Hsiang Chiu (Tpe) 6-3, 6-1; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Lance-Pierre Du Toit (RSA) 5-7, 7-5 retd.; Ryota Tanuma (Jpn) bt Niki Poonacha 6-7(4), 6-4, 4-3 retd.; Pruchya Isaro (Tha) bt Kunal Anand 6-2, 7-6(6).

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ronnie Schneider (USA) & Karunuday Siingh bt Filip Rikl & Patrik Rikl (Cze) 7-5, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF men, Anning, China: First round: Yan Bai (Chn) bt Vimalraj Jayachandran 6-1, 6-0; V.M. Ranjeet bt Tomohiro Masabayashi (Jpn) 6-0, 6-1; Apuroop Patlolla Reddy bt Zhuoyang Qiu (Chn) 7-5, 6-1.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Aoran Wang & Huixin Wang (Chn) bt Run Yu Zhao (Chn) & Tarun Anirudh Chilakalapudi 7-5, 6-3; Anirudh Chandrasekar & P.C. Vignesh bt Chukang Wang & Bingyu Yu (Chn) 6-1, 6-4.