President's Cup started in Astana
International tournaments of the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF World Tennis Tour series will be held on the summer hard courts of the National Tennis Center for two weeks.
The official draw for the qualification, singles and doubles of the men's tournament of the ATP Challenger Tour series took place, El.kz reports with reference to the Tennis Federation of Kazakhstan.
In the main draw, the first seed of Kazakhstan, Mikhail Kukushkin, will play with Evgeny Tyurnev from Russia at the start, Dmitry Popko will try to break the resistance of the Turk Aksu Chingiz, Denis Evseev will be opposed by Rai Ajit from New Zealand.
The results of the draw in doubles: Kazakhstan's Grigory Lomakin and Rai Ajit from New Zealand will play at the start with Alafia Ayeni (USA) / Yankee Erel (Turkey). Arslanbek Aitkulov and Islam Orynbasar will meet with Dev/Kaliandi Hindus. Denis Evseev and Yegor Gerasimov (Belarus) will play against Philip Pelivaux (Poland) / Yatsuki Takahashi (Japan).