Balaji, Jeevan win matches at Futures Meet

CHENNAI, May 29: Top Seed Sriram Balaji put up an impressive display and scored a comfortable straight set win over Lakshit Sood, while second seed Jeevan Neduncheziyan staved off a tough challenge from a much improved Sidharth Rawat in the men's singles competition at the MPTA ITF Men's Futures tennis championship here today. Balaji beat Sood  6-3 6-2 while Jeevan disposed off Siddharth's challenge 7-6 6-4. Prajnesh Gunneswaran upset the fifth seed Keith Patrick Crowley of South Africa in straight sets 6-2 6-4.(PTI)