CHENNAI: The first round of the Aircel Chennai Open is set to commence at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Chennai from Monday. With shielding champion  Stan Wawrinka and pairs champions Oliver Marach and Fabrice Martin not  partaking in the current year's competition, Chennai will see two new  champions be delegated. Monday's play will see five singles matches and  three duplicates matches being played. The principal coordinate in the stadium court sees Brazilian Thiago  Monteiro go up against 20-year-old Russian Daniil Medvedev.

Croatian Borna  Coric, who is seeded at No 6 in this competition, will go up against Hyeon  Chung after the Korean got through a qualifier where he crushed Miljan  Zekic. Monday's activity additionally observes two Indians in duplicates  activity as the match of N Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan go up against  the Swedish group of Johan Brunstrom and Andreas Siljestrom.   The other top duplicates experience sees No 2 seeded Argentine group of  Guillermo Duran and Andres Molteni going up against the Dutch group of  Wesley Koolhof and Matwe Middelkoop.

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