Citi Open: Somdev Devvarman through to 2nd round

Indian tennis ace Somdev Devvarman defeated lucky loser American Rhyne Williams to book a 2^nd round berth in the ATP 500 event in Washington DC. Devvarman overcame Williams in straight sets 7-5 6-1 in an hour and 15 minutes.

The match started out with both players exchanging breaks as the set was neck and neck with the score reading 5-5. However, Devvarman found that crucial extra break of serve to take the first set 7-5. Using the momentum from the opening set, Somdev steamrolled his opponent in the 2^nd set, breaking the American twice and raced away with the set to progress through to the 2^nd round. Rhyne Williams had earlier lost out in the final qualifying stages of the tournament losing out to Australian Samuel Groth in 3 sets 6-2 6-7(5) 6-2.

In the qualifying rounds, Devvarman defeated Americans Jesse Witten 7-5 6-1 in the opening round.In the final qualifying round, Somdev defeated Christian Harrison in straight sets 6-0 6-1 to book a main draw berth. However, Somdev would have his task cut out as he would be up against defending champion and 9^th seed Ukranian Alexander Dolgopolov in the 2^nd round.