Chennai qualifying December 30, 2002-January 5, 2003 Singles Seeds: (cut: none) 1. Noam Okun 2. Nicolas Coutelot 3. Bjorn Phau 4. Mario Radic 5. Tomas Behrend 6. Julien Varlet 7. Michael Kohlmann 8. Tuomas Ketola First Round (1)Noam Okun (ISR) bye (WC)Mose Navarra (ITA) d. (WC)Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan (IND) 6-4 7-6(9) Olivier Patience (FRA) d. Manoj Mahadevan (IND) 6-7(5) 6-3 6-2 (8)Tuomas Ketola (FIN) d. Leos Friedl (CZE) 6-4 6-7(6) 6-3 (2)Nicolas Coutelot (FRA) d. Ota Fukarek (CZE) 6-3 4-6 7-6(5) Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) d. Jim Thomas (USA) 6-4 6-2 Mustafa Ghouse (IND) d. (WC)Vikram Amritraj (USA) 6-0 6-2 (7)Michael Kohlmann (GER) d. Vijay Kannan (IND) 6-3 6-1 (3)Bjorn Phau (GER) d. Harsh Mankad (IND) 6-3 5-7 6-4 Petr Luxa (CZE) d. Frantisek Cermak (CZE) 7-6(6) 6-3 Vishal Uppal (IND) d. Stephen Amritraj (USA) 6-1 6-4 (6)Julien Varlet (FRA) d. Ajay Ramaswami (IND) 6-2 6-0 (4)Mario Radic (CRO) d. Vinod Sridhar (IND) 6-2 6-1 Maximilian Abel (GER) d. Kamala Kannan (IND) 6-1 6-2 Rishi Sridhar (IND) d. (WC)Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) 3-6 6-3 6-4 (5)Tomas Behrend (GER) d. Jaco Mathew (IND) 6-4 6-2 Second Round (1)Noam Okun (ISR) d. (WC)Mose Navarra (ITA) 6-4 3-6 6-4 Olivier Patience (FRA) d. (8)Tuomas Ketola (FIN) 4-6 7-5 6-3 (2)Nicolas Coutelot (FRA) d. Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE) 6-4 2-6 7-6(5) (7)Michael Kohlmann (GER) d. Mustafa Ghouse (IND) 6-1 6-2 (3)Bjorn Phau (GER) d. Petr Luxa (CZE) 6-4 6-4 (6)Julien Varlet (FRA) d. Vishal Uppal (IND) 6-2 6-0 Maximilian Abel (GER) d. (4)Mario Radic (CRO) 7-6(8) 6-2 (5)Tomas Behrend (GER) d. Rishi Sridhar (IND) 6-4 6-0 Qualifying Round Olivier Patience (FRA) d. (1)Noam Okun (ISR) 6-2 6-2 (7)Michael Kohlmann (GER) d. (2)Nicolas Coutelot (FRA) 6-4 6-0 (6)Julien Varlet (FRA) d. (3)Bjorn Phau (GER) 6-3 2-6 6-3 (5)Tomas Behrend (GER) d. Maximilian Abel (GER) 6-3 7-5