Fresh from their final duel in the Delhi Open, Somdev Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri find themselves on the same side of the draw in the USD 50,000 Kolkata Open ATP Challenger Tour that will begin at the Bengal Tennis Association Courts here tomorrow.
Devvarman, who defended the USD 100,000 Delhi Open ATP Challenger today, is seeded fourth, while runner-up Bhambri will start unseeded as they head for a possible semifinal clash.
Second seed Russian Alexander Kudryavtsev is the only other player with a better ranking than the Indian in the bottom half of the draw which also features defending champion Ilija Bozoljac of Serbia.
Unseeded Bozoljac will start his title defence campaign against Frederico Ferreira Silva of Portugal.
James Duckworth, who has been given the top billing, will face Indian qualifier N Vijay Sundar Prasanth in round one before a pre-quarterfinal prospect with his Delhi Open nemesis Sanam Singh.
Wildcard Singh had ousted Duckworth in the Delhi Open last 16.
Devvarman will open his campaign against rising Indian youngster Ramkumar Ramanathan who grabbed headlines with his win over the former at last year's Chennai Open.
Yuki will face Spanish Enrique Lopez-Perez as both the matches are scheduled Tuesday.
The main draw of 32 features 11 Indians including four wild cards and two from the qualifiers.
SEEDS
1 James Duckworth (Australia; 112), 2 Alexander Kudryavtsev (Russia; 129), 3 Ruben Bemelmans (Belgium; 144), 4 Somdev Devvarman (India; 153), 5 Luke Saville (Aus; 161), 6 Radu Albot (Moldova; 165), 7 Alex Bolt (Aus; 167) 8 Kimmer Coppenjans (Bel; 183).
QUALIFIERS
Richard Becker, Kevin Krawietz (both Germany), N Vijay Sundar Prashanth, Vinayak Sharma (both India).
WILDCARDS
Sanam Singh, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Sumit Nagal.
