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Yuki favourite to win back-to-back ITF titles

New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) Yuki Bhambri will be looking to make it four International Tennis Federation (ITF) titles in a row when the second successive $15,000 tournament begins at the DLTA complex here Monday.

Yuki, who won the three $15,000 ITF tournaments that took place here including the one last week, is seeded fourth and will open his campaign against American Nicholas Edlefsen Tuesday.

Japan’s Kento Takeuchi, who lost to last week’s finalist Rohan Gajjar in the quarter-final, continue to be the top seed this week and will be marshalling his forces to go for the title. And so will second seed Vishnu Vardhan who lost to Yuki in a cliffhanger in the semi-final. Vishnu will open against Rohan Gide.

Korea’s Hyun-woo Nam is the third seed and will play Aditya Madkekar in the first round.