Fontang falls

AHMEDABAD, Dec 3: It was a day of upsets for the upset makers. Those coming from obscurity were sent back there in a day's time. The seed-s...

AHMEDABAD, Dec 3: It was a day of upsets for the upset makers. Those coming from obscurity were sent back there in a day’s time. The seed-scalper of yesterday – Martin Hromec, Jaoa Cunha-Silva and Ota Fukarek – failed to do an encore in their third round matches on the third day of the ATP Challenger Tennis Tournament at the AGETA courts here.

Sixth seeded Frederic Fontang of France lost to unseeded Steven Randjelovic 1-6, 2-6.

Eighth seed Eyal Ran was knocked out by unfancied Goichi Motomura of Japan 6-2, 3-6, 1-6.

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Fourth seeded Orlin Stanoytehev of Bulgaria conceded his match against qualifier Herbert Wiltschning in the second set.

RESULTS

Men’s singles second round: Oleg Ogorodov (Uzb) bt Martin Belgraver (Ned) 7-6 (10-8), 6-2; Goichi Motomura (Jpn) bt Eyal Ran (Isr) 2-6, 6-3, 6-1; Vladimir Voltchkov (Por) bt Joao Cunha Silva (Por) 6-3, 6-4; Steven Randjelovic (Aus) bt Frederic Fontang (Fra) 6-1, 6-2; David Nainkin (SA) bt Ota Fukarek (Cze) 6-4, 7-5; Herbert Wiltschnig (Aus) bt Orlin Stanoytchev 6-4, 1-0 (match conceeded); Vadim Kutsenko bt Martin Hromec 6-4, 6-1.