Riya beats Fontenel, enters second round

Riya Bhatia beat Chelsea Fontenel of Switzerland 6-1, 6-4 within the first spherical of the $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event in Bujumbura, Burundi.

The outcomes: $680,140 ATP, Houston, USA: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Federico Gomez (Arg) & Santiago Gonzalez (Mex) bt Sriram Balaji & Miguel Reyes-Varela (Mex) 7-6(3), 6-3.

€145,250 Challenger, Menorca, Spain: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Daniel Cukierman (Isr) & Joshua Paris (GBR) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & David Hernandez (Esp) 7-6(4), 5-7, [10-5].

$40,000 ITF ladies, Bujumbura, Burundi: Singles (first spherical): Riya Bhatia bt Chelsea Fontenel (Sui) 6-1, 6-4; Alyssa Reguer (Fra) bt Pooja Ingale 6-3, 6-4; Darja Suvirdjonkova (Srb) bt Laalitya Kalluri 6-2, 6-1.

$15,000 ITF ladies, Sharm ElSheikh, Egypt: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Barbara Dessolis & Marcella Dessolis (Ita) bt Lakshmi Gowda & Basant Kaur (USA) 7-5, 6-1.