The 104 world ranking spots that seperates Somdev from Ukranian ninth seed Dolgopolov didn't matter much as the world number 129 Indian rode on his aces in the second round battle.u00a0

Somdev, who has a career-best ranking of 62, blasted nine aces against five by world number 25 Dolgopolov in the match and connected on 52 per cent of his first serves in opening set and 51 per cent in the second set.