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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